Word: strode
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...whose call to the FBI had marked the beginning of the end. Next to him was his diminutive mother Wanda, 80, who had not seen her son Ted in 15 years, and family lawyer Anthony Bisceglie. A few minutes before 8, the door opened and the alleged bomber finally strode in, wearing a white cable-knit sweater and a striped dress shirt. David reached for his mother's hand as his older brother, looking neither left nor right, walked past them straight to his chair and sat down with his back to them. If he knew they were there...
...soon, it was time to go. At the airport, Wei met briefly with Sasser, who asked the dissident if he was leaving voluntarily and explained that he might never be able to come back. Just before the 10:30 a.m. departure time, Woo Chan Lee, a U.S. embassy employee, strode to the gate not with his wife but with a tired-looking man in a down jacket. Only then was the Northwest crew told about the important passenger they would have on board the flight...
...34th Street subway stop last Monday morning treated Democrat Ruth Messinger with resolute indifference. But they weren't the demoralizing ones. They were those who felt bad for her, like George, a 33-year-old accountant. After pronouncing that incumbent Rudy Giuliani is rash and a bad listener, he strode over to Messinger and clasped her hand. "Not this time," he consoled, as the smile vanished from the candidate's face...
Monday afternoon, I drove into town for gas and stopped at the self-service, and the pump wouldn't work. Gas wouldn't come out. So I drove down the hill to another self-service, and I got about a dollar's worth in when a heavy-set woman strode up and said, "You just come from the Stop 'N Shop?" I said I had. "You drove away without paying for your gas," she said...
Another first-year recalls her mother getting a little too embroiled in roommate dynamics. Her parents have not liked one of her roommates since she strode in the first day of move-in and demanded that she receive a single; the ill will remained this past weekend...