Word: stride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost three months since Harry Truman had put in a full week of uninterrupted work at his desk. Last week he got back into the swing of his job as if his stride had never been broken...
Knowing that the "murderer" often enjoys such a secure feeling during the preliminary grilling-and that the ways of journalism are not the ways of science-Ecker and Brine took this friendly admonition in stride and proceeded to exploit the clues that Oppenheimer had given them about the forces that had shaped his life. Accepting his theory that "education is apprenticeship," they set TIME'S world-wide network of correspondents to work seeking out the men he had apprenticed himself to- from San Francisco to Copenhagen-and cross-checking Oppenheimer's impressions with them...
...opportunities, but not at the expense of her fellow players who prove, anyhow, that they can look out for themselves. Althea Murphy as Ellic Dunn, Robert Harris as Boss Mangan, and Michael Sivy as the burglar are especially good. Polly Rowles' Lady Utterwood gets into the right stride in the third...
More sophisticated Mexicans took the comet in stride. At Tacubaya Observatory, Astronomer Guillermo Haro patiently explained over & over that there was nothing to fear, that the comet would soon disappear. Some tradesmen saw a chance to make money. A haberdasher advertised: "Comet Sale-Everything Goes Fast!" Gloria Duval, chic hairdresser at the Hotel Reforma, introduced a Comet Hairdo, an upswept...
...refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone call to Bernard Baruch...