Word: strode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important that I was wearing an eye-burning Nehru jacket and tan wool bellbottoms. I basked in her admiring glance for a few moments, leaning provocatively up against a table laden with sardine sandwiches. Before I could think of something hip to say someone more immediately important than myself strode into the room. It was some famous model, with the lengthy graceful moves of a giraffe in slow-motion. "So good to see you!" screeched Leathern Petite and left me stranded. Thus began my adventure in the Wonderful World of the Boston Sound...
...marched, then switched to a rumba, a quick step, the Lindy hop, a quadrille. "Faster, faster!" shouted the President, roaring with laughter. For 50 minutes the crowd of nearly 1,000 stomped to John Philip Sousa marches. Leaving most of his guests wilted, the 73-year-old President finally strode back to his table, lit up a Havana, took a drink of Scotch and Perrier, and was ready for the next dance...
...five hours, the House debated the issue of reseating Powell, airing in the process nearly all his public and private transgressions. Then its members voted 251 to 160 to let Powell take his seat. From the rear of the chamber, where he had been waiting during the debate, Powell strode forward to take the oath from John McCormack...
...words were those of Fidel Castro as he marked the 10th anniversary of his rule in Cuba last week. A decade has elapsed since the barbudos (bearded ones) strode down from the Sierra Maestra to crown their revolution and take over the Caribbean isle, and the years have taken their toll. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara is dead, killed in Bolivia in an ill-fated subversion attempt. Camilo Cienfuegos, another of the early heroes, is also dead, killed in an air crash shortly after the takeover. Posters in Havana today poignantly proclaim: "We are doing well, Camilo...
...dubbed voice of that fine character actor. Jack Hawkins, limited to esophageal speaking since his operation for throat cancer two years ago, is thin, out-of-sync and does not remotely resemble his distinctive rasp. Even Chato, the Indian chief, is misplayed. The part was given to Woody Strode, a Negro ex-football star for the Los Angeles Rams. He speaks, and looks, like a redskin in blackface...