Word: stride
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...second ahead of John Quirk in the mile, and later held Jeff Brokaw off for a narrow victory in the two mile. Spengler grabbed a short lead on the second lap of the two mile, with Brokaw shadowing him all the way and a B. C. runner just a stride further back. Brokaw held onto second place, and the final lap saw the two Crimson distance men sprint home one step apart...
...typical American, the utter incompetence and inefficiency that have become part of our daily lives, the things we take in stride and pass off as "What more could you expect from that outfit?" are really an important part of the "mystique." By Sunday, we can no longer tolerate static, sloppy anything. On Sunday, the pro football fan becomes involved. We are now a real if vicarious part of the team. We are part of a decision-making group that, having made that decision, executes that plan in the exact manner and accomplishes a goal. We are part of an organization...
...Washington wives who take it all in stride are Adele Rogers and Barbara Laird, long comfortably ensconced in their smoothly functioning, swimming-pooled Bethesda homes. Both have been the capital route before?Defense Secretary Laird was a Congressman and Secretary of State Rogers was Eisenhower's Attorney General. "The wife of the Secretary of State has more fun than the wife of the Attorney General," says Mrs. Rogers. That may give Martha Mitchell ideas of making her presence felt in the soft-voiced world of high-level diplomacy...
...sensitivity. They are even aware of their limits, perhaps too keenly: real pain comes when each realizes that the world of the ring, bounded by managers Luna and Solis, offers only ten or fifteen rounds of direct, virile action. Out of the ropes, both fighters and managers stride pitifully to find meaning and solace in love or family security, their marriages or affairs too often turning into the traditional Frankie-and-Johnny relationship of a tough mack and a hysterically "respectable" woman...
...work like Alice in Wonderland is mythic as well as classic. Director Andre Gregory has put his finger on the aspects of myth that pulse in all men. Always a director of flashing and flamboyant resourcefulness, Gregory has now taken a stride in depth. His Alice in Wonderland lays bare the primordial, psychogenetic sources of man's visceral and abiding need for theater...