Word: strode
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ritual of rituals is the softball game, a rigid study in presidential informality. "O.K., where are the victims?" asked Carter as he strode onto the field in 100° heat. The White House team was loaded with Secret Service agents. "I thought the game was fixed when you bring ballplayers in from all over the country just to play one game," jeered a newly trim and fit Brother Billy, captain of the opposing team, a collection of locals and reporters...
...lowering afternoon sun, Jack Nicklaus strode up the shadowed fairway toward the 18th green at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club. The crowd began to surge and roar, cheering each step and move of the man who was leading the U.S. Open. It had been a long time since Nicklaus had heard the sound...
...executive mansion in his Mercedes limousine to visit schools, markets and other gathering places. Wherever he went, thousands of chanting women-who, like Doe, belong to Liberia's long oppressed country people -romped and shouted in the streets. At his first foreign press conference last week, Doe strode into a ballroom at the executive mansion wearing a wide-brimmed army ranger hat, freshly pressed fatigues and combat boots. He carried a ceremonial sword under his arm and a .357 Magnum revolver on his hip. Then, in a halting voice, Doe read a prepared statement in which he repeated...
...meeting on Iran, Carter strode quickly into the other, more agreeable world. At ease, his decisions already set in motion, he shook hands and kissed babies. He was asked: "Are you going to do it to Iran?" His quick reply...
...military commander of the area around Tyre, Major Azmi Zughayar, strode to the top of a sand dune in southern Lebanon. There, above the bamboo and sea grass, he pointed with his walking stick across a sliver of eastern Mediterranean to the shore line of Israel beyond. "That is my country," he told a visitor. "How can I forget? How can any of us forget...