Word: strode
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...Fester J. Pupous '65 lay down his copy of All For Love and strode out into the Cantabridgian eve. The IAB, stolid and white-pated, squinted at him as he passed...
Deep in thought, a former Kennedy aide strode through the White House to ward the President's office, then stopped short. On a rack just outside of the oval office hung a big Stetson hat. Sec retaries, pretty but unfamiliar, bustled around through the anterooms. The doors to the President's office, nearly always open when John F. Kennedy was there, were closed tight. Inside that office, as the aide well knew, was Lyndon Baines Johnson, probably at that very moment speaking softly into a green telephone...
When the procession arrived at the black-draped White House, Jackie and other members of the President's family left their black limousines, fell in behind the restless capers of Black Jack and the slow-turning wheels of the caisson. Behind them strode President Johnson, and his wife. Next, a limousine carrying Caroline and John cruised out the gate. Then the White House driveway filled, gatepost to gatepost, with a moving mass. Like a slow, powerful river, it poured out onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and not until then did the makeup of that seemingly formless crowd come clear...
Johnson turned slowly, strode away from the cluster of friends, walked toward a bank of microphones. It must have seemed the loneliest, longest walk of his life. Motioning Lady Bird to his side, Johnson spoke publicly for the first time as President, expressed his feelings simply...
...chubby little man in a dark blue suit strode into the sports stadium of the steamy Cambodian capital of Pnompenh (pronounced Nom-pen) last week, mounted the platform, and began haranguing the assembled crowd in a whiny, high-pitched voice. The speaker was Prince Norodom Sihanouk, neutralist, mercurial ruler of Cambodia, and he had called the rally to announce in effect that the U.S. was working to undermine his regime. Turning theatrically to the throng, Sihanouk asked whether the national honor did not demand that Cambodia reject any future help from the Americans. When his subjects roared obedient approval...