Word: strode
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...plump gentleman in a black Homburg strode through the afternoon idlers in St. James's Park to the lake. Two wires were taped inconspicuously to the package in his arms; it had a harsh, germicidal smell...
...trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
...tall, gaunt man strode south down the rough road from the mountain city of Querétaro last week at the head of a five-mile-long column of men. Mile on mile he moved across rugged hills, over the naked brown mountains. He walked past ancient churches and haciendas, through villages with pre-Christian names-Tepoztlán, Tlalnepantla, Cuautitlán. As he drew near Mexico City he passed modern factories-Azteca Cement, Nash Motors, La Consolidida Steel-whose chimneys ribbed the blue of Mexico...
Into the Vienna gallery strode the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the crowns of Austria and Hungary. He took one look at the exhibition, and cried out in horror: "This man's bones should be broken in his body!" The violent paintings and portraits, with their savage slashes of color, their gnarled hands and twisted faces, didn't please the critics either. "Disgusting plague sores," one critic called them. "Puddles of foul stink." And the artist, he added, was "a mangy creature...
...days later, when he strode on to Wimbledon's famed center court for the finals, the crowd treated him like a villain. When he double-faulted they cheered. When he smacked a beauty, they sat on their hands. The big Californian put everything into winning the first set from Australia's steady, ambidextrous* Jack Bromwich, 29. Then he got "tired" again...