Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sejm assembles. Only Minister of Interior Slawoi Skladkowski sits, alone and forlorn, upon the Government bench. Opposition deputies stroke their beards in satisfaction, twirl confident mustaches, whisper that the Budget Bill will never pass. Once again they tear it to tatters in a furious debate. At last the President of the Sejm calls for the final vote...
...President can, by a stroke of the pen, capture every broadcasting station in the land. His signature must be appended to a proclamation that "there exists a war or a threat of a war or a state of public peril or other national emergency." (A Fundamentalist President could conceivably consider a decline in church-membership public peril...
Died. Dr. Charles Doolittle Walcott, 76, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; following a stroke of apoplexy; in Washington...
Coach Brown emphasized the fact that he does not intend to pick the first boat until during the Spring vacation period, but will try to keep the crews equally balanced. The strokes, however, are to be changed from one boat to another, and it is probably that the opinions of the men in regard to the respective abilities of the various strokes will figure in Coach Brown's final choice. The timing and rhythm so essential to a stroke oar may be judged by the men who are rowing behind him as well as by the coach, according to Coach...
...Rocky Mountain News started it, an expensive but cunning stroke in the war for readers and advertising that has raged in Denver ever since the Scripps-Howard interests started to compete in earnest with "Napoleon of the Jackrabbits," Gambler-Publisher Fred G. Bonfils of the Denver Post (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week the Scripps-Howard men offered a gallon of gasoline free to anyone inserting a "want ad" in their morning News editions. Publisher Bonfils, irked, ordered a counterstroke and his Post (the morning edition lately established to oppose the morning News), swaggered: "You can't stop us, by cracky...