Word: stride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cardinal Spark. As usual, 28-year-old Stanley Frank Musial, three times National League batting champion, was expected to spark the Cardinal attack. When he got off to a slow start the club sagged into seventh place. But last week, the indispensable Cardinal hit his stride and began to earn his $50,000 a year...
...real master of the family, the hunter, the bully, the realist who has scoffed at his brothers for believing the tales of their old Indian handyman about a black panther as big as a horse who can't to killed with bullets. Clark really hits his stride in the description of curt's gradual disintegration under the onslaught of snow, time, hunger, fatigue, fear, and his own imagination. The long, magnificently told story of curt's hunt is undoubtedly the best part of the book...
...flattened the quarter under his palm; it resounded too loudly against the counter. He hurried out, the book in his pocket, back cover out. He turned towards the houses, his stride just a little longer than normal. By the time he got to his entry he was almost running. The door slammed shut and Vag rocketed into the arm chair. He lit a cigarette and began to read...
...before he got around to quitting, Pensive won the 1944 Kentucky Derby for him (at a $16.20 mutuel). That summer, Pensive bowed a tendon and was retired to stud. (He died last week.) By then Ben was busy with a Calumet filly named Twilight Tear, who struck a stride which finally carried her to 1944's Horse-of-the-Year title...
...long black-and-green Daimler, sporting the British royal crest on its radiator, drew up to a doorway on London's Basil Street one day last week. Out stepped a silver-haired lady in a flowered saucepan hat, to stride regally through the swinging doors. It was the 100th birthday of Harrods, one of the world's great department stores, and 81-year-old Queen Mary, a customer for more than 40 years, thought it a proper time to drop...