For 74 minutes, the president bestrode the national stage enveloped in the trappings of great office _ the speaker's throne and the vibrant colors of the oversized American flag behind him, before him the assemblage of the elite of the three branches of American government and the diplomatic corps.
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For much of the 1990s, Miramax bestrode the world of independent cinema like a colossus, using its canny publicity skills to take indies beyond the art houses and into suburbia _ and commercial success _ beginning with Steven Soderbergh's " Sex, Lies and Videotape " in 1989.
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Just look at the opening of Japan's huge securities and financial services markets to the likes of Fidelity, Goldman, Sachs and Citibank _ the so-called " Big Bang " that was delayed at the insistence of Japan's financial industry back when Japan bestrode the world.
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Born in Springfield, Mass ., in 1904, the grandson of a successful German-born brewer, Geisel bestrode the 20th century, going to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a boy and yet creating, at midcentury, a look for children's books that still seems almost futuristic.
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But for the next two years, at ages 29-31, she bestrode all of tennis, winning both Wimbledon _ where Queen Elizabeth made her first Centre Court appearance and presented Gibson with the'57 trophy _ and the US Championships, which she considered her fondest accomplishment because it was the signature event in her country.
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As they traveled, they came across a man putting fog in a sack, and at the hermit's suggestion, the son asked him to come with them, and so with a man tearing up trees, a man drinking a stream dry, a man shooting a quail in the Underworld, and a man whose steps bestrode an island.
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The enormous admiration and affection for Johnson was reflected in the numerous obituaries by members of the economics profession that appeared in 1977 . " For the economics profession throughout the world, the third quarter of this century was an Age of Johnson " ( Tobin 443 ) . " He bestrode our discipline like a Colossus ", " He was an institution " ( ibid . ) . " Canada lost one of its greatest sons ".
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Flocks of sheep with tiny lambs, black and white, pattered along the dusty road; here a goat followed its master like a dog, trotting behind the diminutive ass which the farmer bestrode; or boys, clad in the whity-brown native cloth, shouted incessantly at donkeys almost invisible under enormous loads of forage, or carried fowls and ducks in bunches head downwards, a sight that always made me long to come to the rescue of the luckless birds.
