Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With Adviser Clark Clifford, Vice President-elect Alben Barkley, and Senate Secretary-to-be Les Biffle, he walked daily over to the secluded enlisted men's beach. There he donned a pair of trunks and splashed in the coral-green waters, using the peculiar head-out-of-water stroke he calls the "Missouri sidestroke." Afterwards, he clapped his pith helmet on his head, lolled on the beach reading newspapers while his aides threw a ball or played darts...
Most of these serials deal with adventure ideas that have been worked to death already. But occasionally, script-writers emerge with some fortunate stroke that is worthy of Chester Gould, or possibly Al Capp. The Sword was such a creation, and anybody who cares to endure several dozen kiddie shows might find another. Incidentally, every program is running some sort of contest. Prizes are usually bikes or toy pistols, but once in a while a car or Bendix pops into the lineup. Such items are worth trying for. It means eating lots of Ralston and swilling Ovaltine, but the competitors...
Rouault has a habit of keeping his paintings locked up in his studio for years on end, signing them only when he is sure he cannot improve them by so much as a single stroke of the brush. He thinks of himself as a misunderstood traditionalist in art (his training was both academic and thorough), and he has been heard to complain that the younger modern painters "don't begin at the beginning...
...Master Stroke...
...pattern of the game was a master stroke. When the Brown ends hung back, the Crimson swept the flanks; when they crashed, Gannon and Shafer jump-passed and bucked for twenty yard gains. Above all, Harvard trapped. On fully half the plays Will Davis pulled out of the weak side and hit a gullible Bruin guard. The rest of the line blocked solidly and a stream of Crimson backs poured through a hole in the strong side...