Word: trot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curator Clem Conger shut the East Room and put in a new parquet floor. After 30 million tourists since 1948, Lyndon Johnson's Fox-Trot, Jimmy Carter's Charleston and a few other indignities, the wood was paper thin...
...hand and afternoon at Princeton slipping rapidly from my grasp. Now, I hadn't paid much attention out of East Brunswick, but it had seemed like about a two minute jaunt to the last stop. Having successfully completed high school algebra, I figured that translated to a 15 minute trot back, in time for the next bus. I should turn in my high school diploma, because when half an hour had passed and no bus station appeared on the horizon I began to revise my estimated time of arrival upwards, once again...
...Agra reading the Bible to lepers. But when Edmund Knox, sire of the four brothers, took the cloth, it was of a different cut. The tireless worker for his soot-stained Midlands flocks eventually became Bishop of Manchester. But he remained a gregarious and joyful man who loved to trot his family off for a seaside holiday...
...greet Grandmother. Though illiterate, she is a haven for everybody; she solves their problems and cures their sick with old Arab concoctions of medical herbs unrivaled in our village or in any of the neighboring ones. We buy a big jar of treacle and return home. Behind her I trot along?a small dark boy, barefooted and wearing a long Arab dress over a white calico shirt?with eyes fixed on the jar of treacle, a treasure won at last...
Unfortunately, the Crimson could trot out a much-improved squad and still not better last season's 3-2, third-place Ivy League record. Of the 20 grapplers who were first or second team All-Ivy last winter, 18 return to the league battles this year. And believe it or not, the only two who graduated were from Harvard, last year's co-captains Milt Yasunaga (126 lbs.) and Kip Smith...