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...took them, and never mind about classes. Summers he and Helen fished in Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from her school desk promptly at 2 p.m. every day, strode out to meet her father. Their box was directly over the dugout, and Helen knew all the St. Louis players in both leagues...
...afternoon, while 4,000 people jammed every balcony and corridor, Senior Oracle Winston Churchill gave the young rebels a few answers, then cannily diverted their attention to subjects on which they could happily agree. Clutching his coat lapel with one hand and stabbing the air with the other, he strode into his 6,000-word speech. First, to a tremendous ovation, he told them he would continue in party leadership "as long as I have the necessary strength and energy and have your confidence...
...came to pass that into the Coop yesterday came a student clutching a white VA authorization in one grimy hand and the rent in his pants in the other. Past the stationery counter, past the book department he strode before he found what he had come...
Hermann Göring was first. Slimmed down, limply clad in a grey suit that once fitted him snugly, he strode into the courtroom at Nürnberg, flanked by two white-helmeted military policemen. He stood erect under the glaring lights, fixed headphones to his ears. British Presiding Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence looked sternly down on the No. 2 Nazi and pronounced sentence: death by hanging...
Promptly at 4:15 o'clock the first contingent of nine harriers strode up the river trail from behind Newell Boat House. Following in quick succession the five other handicap classes took off from the line with 30 second, 50 second, 1:10, 1:50, and 3:10 handicaps respectively...