Word: strode
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential fence-mending trips go, the visit to Donald Dee's place last week was picture perfect. Alighting from he U.S. Marine helicopter in sweltering 90° heat, Ronald Reagan strode accross the front yard of Dee's 500-acre hog farm in central Iowa and shook hands with his smiling host. The President headed for the farmyard, where he gingerly scratched the ear of Shank, an 800-lb. boar freshly scrubbed for the occasion. Then he and his Agriculture Secretary, John Block, perched themselves on a picnic table and chatted amiably with a group of 40 farmers...
...held off for a bit more than half an hour so that it could give advance notice to congressional leaders and to former Presidents. Reagan managed to call Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, but Gerald Ford was aboard an airplane and could not be reached. When Reagan strode into the White House press room, newsmen had been told only that he would make "an important statement" and had been given no hint of what it would be about...
When the senior editors of Newsweek assembled for a meeting last Wednesday morning, foreboding filled the room. For several weeks rumors had circulated that Editor Lester Bernstein would be replaced by someone outside the Newsweek fold. Bernstein strode into the room and began complaining good-naturedly about the sluggish air conditioner. Then he quipped: "Oh, my God, do I sound like Nixon before the speech, talking to the technicians?" When the nervous laughter subsided, Bernstein confirmed what much of the staff had suspected. He had been dismissed as editor and, effective Sept. 7, would be replaced by William D. Broyles...
...Pope's principal mission, aside from a desire to end a war, was to establish the basis for a new religious peace between Anglicans and Catholics, who have been divided for four centuries. As thousands of people cheered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, John Paul strode into the inner courtyard to meet another sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II, in a cheerily informal turquoise dress, was the Supreme Governour of the Church of England, John Paul the head of the Church of Rome; and both heads of state. It was a very private meeting-35 minutes in length...
Rhythmic shouts of "D'Aubuisson! D'Aubuisson!" erupted from the gallery as the boyish-looking figure strode toward the dais of San Salvador's wood-and marble-paneled Blue Chamber in the Legislative Palace. Wearing a three-piece suit, he glanced down at his ten-page handwritten text and declared, "Now that we are starting on the road toward representative democracy, we will leave in the past all desires for revenge. We will use all our strength to guarantee human rights, and we will gain, step by step, that precious tranquillity that we have lost...