Word: trotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of two artificial gaits, a kind of running walk. Southern plantation owners, who used to spend long hours in the saddle overseeing their property, used it because while it covered ground it was easy on the rider. A horse's three conventional speeds forward-the walk, trot and canter-were either too slow, too fast or too uncomfortable for some early American connoisseurs...
Official Phrases. Although Wing Commander seemed to understand the ringmaster's verbal commands (for a rack, a walk, a canter), he was getting instructions through his rider's legs and the bits in his mouth. In the trot, Rider Teater deliberately let the field draw ahead of Wing and then clucked to him. The champ, all the prettier to watch for being alone, quickly caught up with the field and passed most of it. After going through all their paces, Wing Commander and two others were selected to remain in the center of the ring. The order...
...Pennsylvania-bred Trumpeter Vaughn Monroe, fronting for a five-piece Boston society combo, was about as low on the bandleaders' register as a man could get. Now & then he would try to jolt his cocktail-and coming-out party patrons from their fox trot and rumba rut by booming Ave Maria or Glory Road in the aggressive baritone he was training for opera in his spare time. But mostly he gave them "what was called for-a hundred and twenty-eight beats to the minute-the debutante stuff and the businessman's bounce...
...miles around and a pleasure for all to behold. But it soon became evident that there are certain obstacles to be overcome in the training for harness of every young moose. For one thing, moose pace, and nothing can be done about it. It would neither walk nor trot but only pace...
...agree with Professor Dobie that the coyote is one of the most interesting of animals. He is a natural as a "story-maker." A friend of mine in Colorado saw a coyote trot boldly into his farmyard in broad daylight, whereupon his big collie gave chase, was ambushed by two accomplices of the decoy, and killed by the three of them within 200 yards of the house...