Word: strode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the River. Producing knives, the frenzied troops then hacked the bodies into pieces, tossing them as souvenirs to the civilian crowd that watched. That afternoon, several Congolese soldiers strode into the local office of the World Health Organization, gleefully dropped a human hand on a desk and walked out giggling; others heaved the rest of the ghastly remains into the muddy Lualaba...
...threatening eyebrows, he was born in the grimy East End of London, the only child of a Jewish tailor. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, where he admired an eccentric master with a wild passion for the theater who liked to throw inkwells out the window and strode the halls shouting lines from Othello...
...dust and debris were quickly forgotten when the festival's star performer strode onto the makeshift, wood-planked stage. Master Cellist Pablo Casals, a sprightly 84, brought concertgoers leaping from their rough-hewn seats in a rising ovation. The aging artist beamed. "Where did all those people come from?" he asked. They came from Haifa to the north, from kibbutzim in the shadow of Mount Carmel, from army headquarters in Tel Aviv-and they came chiefly to hear Pablo Casals...
...York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, 53, donned an outsized fez to preside over Yankee Stadium festivities of the 62nd annual Negro Elks' convention. Next day, at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, the Governor passed the fez-to his eldest son, Rodman, 28, who strode to the Grand Ballroom dais and invoked 2,000 delegates of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order with the salutation, "Brothers and daughters...
Into Turin's busy streets last week strode 50 pimps, pickpockets, smugglers and assorted minor menaces, happy advance guard of some 1,000 jailbirds who will be turned loose this month thanks to a new law that faces up to an economic fact of Italian life: a day's work-even in jail-is worth more than it used...