Word: strode
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alerted by a rancher who spotted the smoke of a campfire, France, alone and on foot, picked up their trail last week. He followed their tracks through snow and across rocky terrain for four miles. Rifle in hand, he slipped quietly toward their campsite, then strode almost casually into the opening. "Seen any coyotes around?" he asked. The father jumped up and reached for his rifle. "Please don't make me kill you!" warned the sheriff. France promised the thinly dressed but well-armed fugitives "a warm bed and warm food and warm water," then marched them into...
...what difficulties you faced in coming here, Billy Graham," said Piotr Konovalchik. "We rejoice that you are with us tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia too, O Lord. We pray that a surge of revival may start in this house of ours...
...band became a map of the United States, and the map sang America the Beautiful. Why didn't 84 pianists in blue playing Rhapsody in Blue look preposterous? Why didn't Rocket Man look more preposterous? We knew it would happen, yet it happened. The athletes strode in and touched us again. China and Rumania brought down the house. When the President said, "I declare open the Olympic Games of Los Angeles," were we supposed to think politics? When we gulped at the sight of Rafer Johnson's face, were we supposed to feel foolish...
...Colorado Senator Gary Hart descended from the podium and plunged into the crowd after his Wednesday-night speech, the hopeful strains of Chariots of Fire washed over Moscone Center. The next night Democratic Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale, battle-scarred from his primary brawls, strode triumphantly to the platform and raised his arms like a prizefighter. The song: Theme from Rocky...
...reporters, cameramen and his aides counted off the seconds ("nine, eight, seven"), Mondale strode to the microphones in the Radisson Plaza at 11:59 a.m. on the dot and declared, "Today, I am pleased to claim victory I am the nominee. I've got the votes." He cited a precise number of delegates behind him: 2,008. Mondale pledged to work for "a unified convention," saying that he would make personal appeals to both Hart and Jackson to join him in that effort. He conceded under questioning that the friction among the candidates had been great, but he tried...