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Word: strolled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, Barney's boys only made one mistake. In the top half of the fourth Barlick was forced to stroll over to the Dodger dugout to ask Gene Hermanski if he would kindly shut his yap. Mr. Hermanski attributed his blasphemous outburst to a fit of boyish enthusiasm and respectfully complied...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...Soviet Union of large quantities of American drape shapes, with a stock of the strange ties from Charing Cross Road. Once Russia saw its population trotting about in these ridiculous costumes, its sense of humor would be restored, and the sartorially resplendent nations of East & West would stroll hand in hand into the garmental adventure of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clothes Make the Communist | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Wood and Courier broke well from the starting tapes but immediately slowed to a walk as both jockeys tried to follow their instructions. A starter's assistant cracked his whip but could not even raise a canter. It took Ridge Wood and Courier 1 min. 24 sec. to stroll the first furlong (in that time a really good horse, doing his best, can run seven furlongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Two Tortoises | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...same nest had beaten him to it. In the stillness of Blair House, another President, Brazil's Eurico Caspar Dutra, also true to his old-soldier habit, had already shaved and breakfasted. Coming down stairs later, Harry Truman invited his overnight guest along on his regular morning stroll. Long before the high priests of protocol were up to bother them, the two Presidents ambled leisurely in the capital's cool, clear morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morning Stroll | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

When Van Fleet is not working, he likes to stroll about Athens' ancient hills, or to sit and watch the setting sun throw a rosy gleam over the Parthenon. Most of all, he likes to browse through the Athens Archaeological Museum, where he invariably stops before a bronze statue, by an unknown Greek sculptor of the 3rd Century B.C., which seems to symbolize his own character and task. It represents a horseman leaning forward on his steed, "With Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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