Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...termed the revolution the "greatest stroke on behalf of blacks" since the Emancipation Proclamation...
...Lightweight Crew 1st Boat stroke...
...seemingly unstoppable lineup in the freestyle and fly events contrasts sharply with depth of talent in back- and breast-stroke events. Walsh said her swimmers for those contests are "adequate," but the team "doesn't have the real speedy person" necessary for a consistent winner...
Still's sense of mission is, to put it mildly, imperial. "I had made it clear," he wrote in 1963, "that a single stroke of paint . . . could restore to man the freedom lost in 20 centuries of apology and devices for subjugation." The Met's catalogue is stuffed with this kind of rant and salted with fulminations against the demons of the "corrupt" art world that make the Ayatullah's views on the Shah seem, by comparison, mere tickling. Nevertheless, Still's notes on the history of abstract expressionism, which sharply contradict some...
DIED. Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 82, widow of President Dwight D. Eisenhower; following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. (see NATION...