Word: strode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best of Both. Equally nimble, Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah raced around Manhattan shaking black hands and white hands at every opportunity. Casting himself in the role of mother hen to the 15 newly emerged African states, U.S.-educated Nkrumah strode from his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria alternately dressed in Western business suits and Ghanaian ceremonial robes, and seemed to promise to fellow Africans the best of both worlds...
...Tudor launched into a piano duet, playing chords with their elbows while assaulting the piano's innards with knives and pieces of tin. After Round 6, in which Cage slammed the piano top with an iron pipe and dropped bottles on the floor, an elderly music lover strode to the stage, walloped Cage's piano with his walking stick and stalked out shouting "Now I'm a musician...
Jack Kennedy carefully chose his ground for his counterthrust on religion, and it was plainly hostile ground. Looking something like a parson himself, dressed in severe black suit and black tie, he strode purposefully into the ballroom of Houston's Rice Hotel last week to address and be questioned by the Greater Houston Ministerial Association under the eye of a statewide TV. Nervously he worked his thumbs together, rubbed his fists back and forth, sipped water several times as he waited through the introductions and opening prayer. "What's the mood of the ministers?" he asked his press...
...Dave Davis hurt his wrist. California's Parry O'Brien, 28, two-time Olympic champion, delighted in calling Nieder "a cow pasture thrower" given to choking in the big events. But after hitting 67 ft. 1 in. in practice. Nieder was the picture of confidence as he strode into the arena wearing a jaunty yellow straw hat bought especially to rattle his rivals: "I decided to do a little 'psyching' of my own." Rocketing across the ring, Nieder got off a put of 64 ft. 6| in. to break O'Brien's Olympic record...
...reading "Fascist"' and "Dictator," burst into the distinctive "whoop, whoop, whoop" that is the Congolese version of a boo. Seemingly undismayed by their jeers -and by the fact that his summit conference had attracted mainly minor bureaucrats instead of the 20 heads of state he had invited-Lumumba strode to the stage of the Palace of Culture to cry to his guests: "Gentlemen, you are now making contact with Congolese reality...