Word: striding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economy had spent three years converting to war. It has had only months, as yet, to reconvert to peace. How long it would be until peacetime production reached its full stride no man knew. Miracles of peacetime production to match the miracles of war production had still to be achieved. But the first crisis of converting to peace had been overcome more swiftly than the first crisis of converting...
...wants? How would his plan coordinate "the military and the remainder of the Government?" He admitted that "other steps" would have to be taken after the unified military establishment had been set up. Navymen claimed that the Navy's proposed National Security Council made those steps in one stride. But Harry Truman did not choose to pay even lip service to any Navy proposals...
...believe, that some day a scientist somewhere-perhaps in the U.S. -might press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow up the world (see SCIENCE). He took the news, as he took all news that did not affect his own immediate, personal wellbeing, in stride. It was too big for headlines, too big for him to comprehend. Anyhow, somebody would see to it that it did not happen...
...inside out (and the public-relations man made hay with the story), Mister Lillyman, Jane and Susie lived his dream down to its minutest detail (a Maraschino cherry on top of each scoop of ice cream in their triple-scoop banana splits). Lillyman and Susie took it in their stride (see cut), but it was almost too much for Mrs. Lillyman. Said she: "He's always been a champagne dreamer...
Professional hockey, the first big sport to take a wartime nose dive, is the first to get back in prewar stride. With the 1945-46 season a month old, some 85% of the National Hockey League's servicemen stars are on ice again. Most of them have Canadian Army discharges; some of them, muscle-stiffened from too much army-style road work, will need another week or two to limber up. Prospective result: the end of the Montreal Canadiens' honeymoon...