Word: strode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Kirsten Flagstad in 1935 made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Wagner's Die Walkuere, the audience cheered and the press groped for comparisons with "the irrecoverable magic" of Swedish-born Soprano Olive Fremstad.* Last week another Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode the Met's stage, and this time the comparison was to the "incomparable" Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met's Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century...
...United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald strode into the elevator of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel one day last week and growled: "I can tell you one man who isn't going to be President...
...birthday picture, recalled the time six years ago at Augusta when Grandson David ("just a little boy then") had "gathered up all the blown flashbulbs" after photographers left. Golfer Ike posed impatiently. "Looks as if it's going to rain," he grumped, turned on his heel and strode away...
...eyed, haggard witness strode into the House Caucus room, two rows of standees in the rear strained forward to glimpse at the unwilling star of TV's dimmest hour. Charles Lincoln Van Doren folded himself uncomfortably into the witness chair, gulped some water, then stripped away the last layer of illusion separating him from the shills. "I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years," began Van Doren in a remarkable confession...
...Abbeville, La. from the dusty airport, rolled on past the white-columned courthouse, and pulled up in front of the Candlelight Restaurant. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington unfolded his long (6 ft. 2 in., 183 lbs.), well-tailored frame from a rear seat and, ringed by Louisiana politicos, strode inside to start shaking hands. As photographers flashed away, Abbeville's Mayor Roy Theriot bounced forward to get his picture taken with Symington and Louisiana's own Senator Allen Ellender. "I'm going to pose with two Senators," cried Theriot. "One may be the next President." With...