Word: strided
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...NATO ambassador arrived, he assumed different body language, slouching in an overstuffed chair, communicating casually. He went out of his way to mingle with enlisted men, and after lunching on C rations in the field, he would change into a black tie for a diplomatic dinner without breaking stride. Says an officer who worked for him: "It constantly amazed me how he shifted gears...
...press has hounded Charles' dates ever since his late teens. The Prince has always taken the gossipy accounts of his amorous adventures, whether fanciful or real, in good-natured stride. The pressure has been rather more trying for his girl friends. A few years ago, for example, Lady Jane Wellesley, a self-assured brunet, was discovered to have spent a weekend at one of the royal residences. The press descended en masse on the Chelsea travel agency where she worked. "Get rid of them and don't come back at all if you can't," warned...
...that the distance bug has bit, Rogers will never stop running. Next time you're strolling along the Seine in Paris, keep a look out for a slim, blondponytailed figure with a light stride and a French history book under her arm; you can bet it's Becky Rogers...
...players at the Marlboro Grand Prix Tennis Classic in Canton, the first professional athletic competition in the People's Republic, were in a similar funk. "I didn't eat for the first two days," insisted Tennessean Terry Moor. But the most celebrated participant took it all in stride. In fact, Jimmy Connors hardly seemed to notice he was in China at all. He spent the five days of his visit playing and practicing, sleeping and eating, dining on the all-American peanut butter he had brought from home. Only grudgingly did he attend a banquet in the players...
...faults you might expect from non-professionals, and nothing is ever so bad if you anticipate it. More than this, these players succeed in ways that no professional company really could: with the excitement of reckless and risky devices, the heady pleasure of watching an actor hit his stride for the first time--genuine wonders of artistic innocence...