Word: strode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations. "I am champion of the whole world," he announced grandly, "and I want to meet all the people I am champion of." Carefully attired in diplomatic black and surrounded by his ubiquitous Black Muslim advisers (wherever Cassius went, Malcolm X was sure to go), he strode boldly into the delegates' lounge-instantly creating what one observer described as "the biggest sensation since Khrushchev took off his shoe." Complained Turkish Ambassador Turgut Menemencioglu: "They're more interested in Cassius than in Cyprus." Delegates lined up to shower him with invitations to visit their countries...
...Leopoldville hospital last week. "I tore off some of my habit, drenched it in blood and smeared his face and back, then mine, to make us look dead. I was certain that we would not survive." Incredibly, the end never came. Into the refectory strode several of the Jeunesse. Bui seeing the gory "bodies," the marauders turned away and left...
...comedian Dick Gregory, who flew to Boston last night from Arkansas, where he had earlier in the day been sentenced and fined for civil rights participation, who brought emotion to a fever pitch. Gregory strode into the auditorium, suitcase in hand, an hour and and a half after the rally began...
...Wanted to Live." Last week, a month and a half after his operation, Davis strode into a Tulane news conference and proclaimed: "I feel better now than I have in five years." How did he feel about having kidneys from a chimpanzee? "The doctors explained I couldn't live with what I'd got. I was worried, of course-but not about the animal business. I knew it would be a monkey. It didn't bother me. All I wanted to do was to survive. I feel wonderful." Feeling that way, Davis went home for Christmas with...
...Fester J. Pupous '65 lay down his copy of All For Love and strode out into the Cantabridgian eve. The IAB, stolid and white-pated, squinted at him as he passed...