Word: strode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scheduled to come on during the second half of the program to play the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. I (which, along with the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 3, is still his big showpiece), Cliburn artfully delayed his appearance for several suspenseful minutes after the lights went down. Finally he strode boyishly out, all arms, to thunderous applause...
...threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take deepest interest," he told President Kennedy, "in what goes on in this country-and especially what you do, sir." Then he strode to Kennedy's new bubble-topped Lincoln and plunged into a giddy, four-day whirl unrivaled in recent capital history...
Christ or Caesar. As Theologian Barth strode in, wearing his usual rumpled summer suit without a tie, his shock of grey hair was its customary bird's nest. Barely acknowledging the thunderous ovation that greeted him, he began his lecture on ethics where he had left off the day before, on the phrase of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come." Christians, he said, should act not according to rigid principles, but only according to what their faith tells them is God's will in Jesus Christ. "Christians should be free," he said, "to give an attenuated...
Vagabond Toad. One morning last week, Governor Patterson strode briskly down the cherry-red carpeted staircase in the Governor's mansion and out onto the marble terrace for breakfast. Already at the table were his wife Mary Jo (called "Tuti"), their twelve-year-old son Albert L., and their eight-year-old daughter Barbara Louise. Cardinals flitted through the gigantic water oaks and pecan trees on the mansion lawn, and a squad of six Negro trusty prisoners in white uniforms trimmed the grass while the Governor attacked a plate of muffins and bacon. Suddenly a furor arose...
...into his glass-walled office in Léopoldville, chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President Joseph Kasavubu sulked and hurled insults at the U.N. One afternoon Colonel Joseph Mobutu strode into Dayal's office, asked for a slug of Scotch, and announced that a coup d'état would take place within ten minutes...