Word: strutting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates. Jay was so proud of the new center that he got his father, John D. Rockefeller HI, to fly down from New York for the dedication party, when the whole town turned out to hear the two marching bands and strut in the cakewalk contest...
...part of a liberal education? But of course, teachers in the sciences do not have to feign frenzy to stir up interest; science is interesting for its own sake. It seems clear that large segments of the humanities can be made interesting to undergraduates only if actors, not scholars, strut on the platform in front of students...
...Chrysler '66s from two plants came off the lines with improperly tightened control-arm strut nuts; of 182,000 vehicles involved, 45% were corrected before sale, and the remainder are now being "campaigned...
...also about Henry. I mean, Henry adopts the guise of a sheep." Such aptitude accounts of the ease with which the dream-song form is adapted to occasions: he has a "strut" for Theodore Roethke, who died in 1963, some poems about Frost, and a fine eulogy for Kennedy, which appeared in Poetry and Power...
Here's where the timing comes in. With the exception of Charles Braun as Doctor and Leonard Sussman as Priest, the actors in this show do not develop regular enough patterns of expression and reaction. They talk with the same voices and swagger or strut the same way, but the rhythm of their speech, the length of time they take to respond aren't consistent. They don't, as they might, provide sure indications of the temperaments of the characters...