Word: strode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept bringing in all those cardiac cases," growled John Wayne, 57. "I was ready to shoot my way out." Hastily, they moved him to another floor to finish recovering from surgery for the removal of a lung abscess. Finally, 10 lbs. (and several shades of tan) lighter, the Duke strode from the sickbed into a brigade of reporters. Had it been cancer? A heart attack? "There's nothing to that," he roared, ripping open his shirt and showing his scar. "Take a look for yourself...
JEFFERSON DAVIS by Hudson Strode. 556 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...cause until his death in 1889. Or it may be that the popular taste for gallant losers is satisfied in this historical instance by the courtly warrior, Robert E. Lee. At any rate, the dimness of Davis' repute, even among Southerners, is attested by the fact that Hudson Strode's three-volume biography is not only the best modern work on Davis; it is virtually the only...
...coat, then walked boldly to the exit. There was a loud click as the turnstile locked, then a buzzing noise as the librarian was alerted. Even as the "thief" sheepishly explained that he "forgot" to sign out his book, a patron whose book had been properly checked out strode easily through the same turnstile...
...couple of hours later, Lyndon strode across the lawn again, stopped at a White House limousine that had been parked at the rear entrance, unnoticed by newsmen, for nearly half an hour. Inside sat Hubert Humphrey and Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, both summoned down from Atlantic City. Dodd, an old friend of the President's (he had backed him for the top spot in '60), was there partly to maintain the suspense over the vice-presidency and partly to get some visibility for his own campaign for reelection. In the car, Humphrey was sound asleep. Lyndon...