Word: trot
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...captures our vague feeling of joy when we approach an animal and he doesn't "quicken his trot" to avoid us; the evanescent feeling of horror when a lover senses the "last traces of warmth.. fading in you"; the complex of emotions she feels when she observes simple scenes like a man walking two dogs on a rainy evening or a young woman wading into a river to draw water...
...extra space their blasting exhausts require, airport acreage has multiplied, and the problem has become worse. The hike from check-in counter to the farthest reaches of the San Francisco International Airport is more than a quarter of a mile, or twice around a football field at a nonjog trot. Puffed one woman soon after Atlanta's new $20 million airport opened in May: "I declare, if they had told me I would have to walk halfway to New Orleans, I'd have worn my shopping shoes...
Jackie made the most of Lester Lanin's music. To the tune of Never on Sunday, she tripped a nimble fox trot with the Colombian ambassador; while she was dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister...
Lanin played no twists, but Mrs. Jacob Javits, wife of New York's Republican Senator, nevertheless twisted to a fast fox trot with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Herbert Klotz. Lyndon Johnson danced with Jackie's mother, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. Senators Hubert Humphrey and John McClellan, better known for their oratory than for their ballroom skills, jostled about. Equally at ease were such non-Washington types as the Alfred G. Vanderbilts, the Henry Ford IIs, the William Paleys. and Mrs. Gary Cooper...
...rumbling of a 41-gun salute and glowering dark clouds in the London skies, Liberia's President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 66, was greeted by Queen Elizabeth II-marking 114 years of Anglo-Liberian friendship. As they boarded an open landau for the 40-minute trot to Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman...