Word: strides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Against UMass, McLaughlin will vary his strategy according to the game situation and the players on the court. "I think we have to change things up, keep them off stride. After all, we're supposed to have the smarter students," he said...
Former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, head of a panel of experts that has spent two years studying the problem, concluded this fall that U.S. education has been "off stride for ten years." Reflecting the general concern, Jimmy Carter during his campaign called for creation of a separate, Cabinetlevel Department of Education to help remedy the situation; one of his aides S declares, "We're going to get that started." But whatever Washington does, issues of public education are largely a matter of state and local responsibility...
Brown fired. The ball soared by Sigillito, who was also hanging out in the middle, and met Hobdy in mid-stride. The swift senior, a starter a year ago, Jim Curry's back-up this go-around, then made the most of his opportunity and outsprinted the world into the Dartmouth endzone...
...creating an aura. Some scenes seem structured with this purpose in mind; at one point. Nureyev completely upstages a porcine-looking boor in a fashionable Manhattan night club by sweeping the latter's mistress off her feet. The episode, although somewhat gratuitous, is meant to show Valentino's swashbuckling stride. The desired effect is partly produced, but the strain behind the effort becomes obvious...
...never really broke my stride...