Word: trot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horses will return once a year for Munich's 16-day autumnal beer bust, the Oktoberfest. Then, geared in blue velvet and leather harnesses, they will take up their old station in the Gabelsbergerstrasse and trot out daily to the festival grounds with wagons bearing garlanded but empty wooden kegs. At the same time, fume-belching trucks will deliver the real stuff in aluminum barrels...
...hills, swirled madly about the besieged white men, and then fled wildly, howling like frightened, furious children, when the cavalry arrived for a nick-of-time rescue? Those were the days when Indians were really serviceable. No worry about characterization, no need for realistic detail or historical recreation. Just trot them out on stage and as quickly do them in. Those were the days when Indians died by simply biting the dust. No questions asked. No catharsis...
Foster tried to work out last week prior to the Brown contest, but as he confessed, "I couldn't even trot; I couldn't do anything." He went out to practice yesterday with orders from doctors to refrain from sprints, fast starts or sudden jerks of any kind...
...question remains, is it time for Hacker−or anyone−to write the country off? It may be too late to trot out again the "We are a young country" routine. But there is also a premature hysteria to the new-style despair, as if American opinion were going from polarized optimism to polarized pessimism−from the foolish complacence of thinking we were the best to the equally foolish self-contempt of accepting that we are the worst...
...conspicuous success in the "Fancuilla" is the attempt to make it American-i. e. simple-minded. This is achieved by having the gold miners sing in unison, and by repeating a Grofe-type trot-rhythm to the point of incandescence...