Word: walking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedes against the Russians, the French and the Danes in the Baltic. Some 30 years later she headed for the Mediterranean with a combined fleet of British, Austrian and Turkish vessels, in the 1840 war against Egypt. A symbolic cock (to show that she was cock of the walk) rode high above her royals when she returned to Britain...
...aging Implacable was placed in honorable retirement as a training ship. One by one, as young future admirals learned to walk her sturdy oak planks and climb her graceful rigging, her old comrades in arms faded away. By the end of World War II, during which she served in Portsmouth as an admiralty storehouse, the Implacable and her onetime adversary the Victory were the only veterans of Trafalgar still afloat. The Victory was preserved as a monument. The Implacable was left to lie among condemned men-of-war at Portsmouth Harbor's head, her rotting hulk manned only...
Connoisseur Gaits. In the ring, the ringmaster called for a walk and Wing slowed down, though still strutting. Teater gave him a thank-you tap on the head. At the call for the "slow gait," Teater gave a twist on the snaffle rein and Wing moved into a gliding, four-beat amble...
...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...
...course this Business School education logic sometimes goes astray, because teaching a young man to be an executive before his time can occasionally lead to trouble. "We often find a good bright boy, say from Middle-bury, more satisfactory," a company personnel man once reported. "These Harvard men walk in here and expect a desk twice as long as mine and with half a dozen push buttons...