Word: stride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word has spread through the hills of Anatolia. Turks stride with new confidence along the banks of the swift Kizil Irmak. They know now that the Russians cannot win. Have not the incredible Americans trained dogs to fly airplanes...
...Jews of Europe had to wear long curls; many young Israelis of Tel Aviv favor crew cuts in the American-or Prussian-style. Israeli girls, who run to the buxom bucolic type, stride the streets in slacks or shorts. Many have gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...
...Detroit, 200-lb. Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians, a revamped third baseman, took a big stride toward becoming 1948's pitcher-of-the-year by twisting the Detroit Tigers' tail as no pitcher had before him in 26 years. He gave no hits, only three walks. It was his eleventh win of the season (against six defeats) and the American League's first no-hitter under lights...
When the meeting broke up, Taft rushed to a press conference at the Benjamin Franklin hotel. His stride was determined ; his face bore a look of hope. In confident tones he said: "The Dewey blitz has been stopped...
Chinese women were taking the blast in their dainty stride. Some even openly agreed. Said a pretty 23-year-old whose fiance had deserted the army to marry her-then was unable to find a job that would support them both: "If there's fighting to do, the soldiers had better not get married. Half their hearts would be in the family, and only half in the fight." But the prim young wife of a Shanghai bank clerk spoke sharply for the rest: "Whenever men get into trouble, they blame women...