Word: strode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes him try to avoid wearing glasses in public. At last week's funeral of ex-President René Coty, De Gaulle walked ponderously up to the stairs leading to the platform. He put on his glasses and momentarily studied the steps, then whipped the glasses off and strode giraffe-like toward the top. Sure enough, he stumbled over an unnoticed ridge en route...
...Machine has already sold more than $14 million worth since it first strode across TV screens in 1960. Glass pays his 25 designers between $18,000 and $30,000 a year, but being an elf in Santa Glass's workshop involves more hard work than ho, ho, ho. Staff designers are expected to work 14 hours a day, six days a week; during crucial periods, Glass locks them in their rooms and does not allow them to speak to one another...
...votes, Nixon was losing by nearly 300,000. And the morning after the election Nixon wrote his own political obituary. His press secretary, Herb Klein, had called a press conference to announce that Nixon was conceding defeat. Klein said that Nixon himself would not appear-whereupon Nixon strode into the room and started talking...
Unpresumptuous Try. Yet when Ben Bella strode to the rostrum...
Even Charles de Gaulle was there. Surrounded by security troops bristling with submachine guns, the French President last week strode through Paris' dazzling auto show. So did every other European who could possibly make...