Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India's greatest fakir, Laxman Sandra Rao, 77, demonstrated his powers first by taking a walk on hot coals. Then came time for the stunt that the crowd of 1,000 had paid up to $100 apiece to witness: a stroll across the water in a specially constructed tank in Bombay. While movie cameras whirred, Rao stepped off the edge-and sank like a stone to the bottom. The spectators felt they'd been soaked themselves. Rao retreated to a downtown office building, where he began returning rupees to all the rubes who came forward...
...Chester Valley Knoll sees his own shadow and crawls back into his hole. According to astronomers, who gaze at the vernal equinox and not the infernal snow, spring will burst forth at 8:53 p.m. March 20. But to millions of U.S. gardeners, spring officially begins the minute they stroll through the local flower show and receive their newest seed catalogue-and many of them have...
...aise, formed to ferret out all the linguistic "degradation and corruption" of franglais in the land where tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou. Hélas, quel...
...that it would take more time than anyone had thought for the President to recover his full strength. Nonetheless, Johnson no longer winced with pain when he walked. The day after his first stiff quarter-mile outing in the hospital grounds, he ventured outside for a 1½-mile stroll and cheerfully shook hands with passersby. He stopped to chat with Mrs. Margaret Pisapia of Silver Spring, Md., who told him: "You look wonderful." "I'm doing O.K.," he replied, "for an old man." When he returned to his third-floor room, he had enough energy left to sign...
...enter Britko's fantasies as he pictures a dream world of dazzling sunshine (shot by superimposing the characters on an overexposed setting) where he and old Mrs. Lautmann can stroll elegantly along the shadows and sunrays, listening to the town band. But the blare of the Nazi band returns him to reality. The audience undergoes a similar fantasy sequence at the end of the film, which is broken finally by the lights of the movie theater as the film ends...