Word: strode
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...flown briskly back to Tokyo and gone about his war. The other had flown back to San Francisco to make a speech. A performance of The Barber of Seville had been canceled to give him a platform in the War Memorial Opera House. By the time Harry Truman strode on stage, he had provoked the U.S. into rapt curiosity. But the President did little to satisfy...
From the moment when Sir Thomas strode slowly out to the podium to conduct the Star Spangled Banner and God Save the King until he finished conducting his encore he held the almost ell-out audience in breathless suspense with the excellence of his music...
...George K. Strode (as head of the group) for "outstanding achievement in the control of infectious diseases and the education of health personnel throughout the world" by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...proportions of the skulduggery. But mostly it reflected the city's undisguised delight in its new police commissioner. As he took office, burly, well-tailored Thomas Murphy (TIME, Oct. 2) gave New Yorkers the same deliriously doomlike sense of expectancy they had experienced when Babe Ruth strode to the plate in Yankee Stadium...
White-haired Andrei Vishinsky, who had been gossiping amiably with Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, froze in his seat. Then, in a move familiar in U.N. circles, but still a shock at social gatherings, he got up and, followed obediently by the Soviets' Jacob Malik, strode with all available hauteur from the room...