Word: strolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroll with anxious expectation across the broad lawn up to the great white columns of Colonial's porch. The door swings open and you and your group (throughout Bicker, you move in a group of three or four--you are judged, accepted, and perhaps rejected collectively) are swept into the dazzling warm uproar inside. You feel the soft depth of the rug beneath your feet and can see a bright, glittering, well-groomed haze all around you. Up the grand stairway, lined with upperclassmen clapping and cheering, until you reach the top where beaming and blushing abashedly you sign your...
...streets of Montmartre but reserved her true love for a handsome young pimp named Nestor-le-Fripé. Because he returned her love, Nestor put on a false beard and booked Irma by the week. After an interlude on Devil's Island, Nestor returned to "Coulaincourt, where stroll the filles d'amour," to settle down in unmarried bliss with his Irma. This curdled romantic idyl furnishes the plot for Irma-la-Douce, Paris' most popular long-run musical; it is also the vehicle that launched France's newest singing star, Colette Renard, 28, a onetime Montmartre...
...climbed before air time. Warned Allen: "Don't forget to tell the gamblers in the casino if they're not with their own wives that they'll be seen all over America." Producer Harbach needed to clear a path for Steve Lawrence's long stroll through the casino and lobby ("Don't worry, I'll get a machine gun"), and to run interference for Comedian Costello during his 20-second dash from the casino to the next set on the nightclub stage...
...Pentagon job requires a sense of urgency, and Neil McElroy has always been a man in a hurry: he dresses fast ("He has broken more shoestrings than any other man in America," says a Cincinnati friend), walks fast ("You can't call a walk with Mac a stroll. It's more like a run"), drives fast ("He's a good driver but he goes like hell"), flies fast, often pausing just long enough to stuff his toilet articles and an extra shirt into a briefcase before taking off cross-country...
...blood boils), the air is as bad as a vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...