Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able and corruption-free term as governor of populous Sāo Paulo State. Between his election and inauguration he again disappeared, leaving Brazilians to speculate about his policies, his Cabinet, his whereabouts. After his August abdication he sailed to England, then cruised on to Australia to stroll the beaches and remain uncommunicative...
...still climb on each other's shoulders up to the wooded heights. In the Moslem quarter, the casbah's tunneled alleys are filled with turbaned men and neat-stepping donkeys burdened with panniers. Beneath the leafy shade of the Forum and along the Rue Michelet in the European district stroll some of the loveliest girls in the world, giggling and gossiping as if they were not a step away from a daily round of slaughter...
...acre project will include a 52-story office building to house Prudential's Northeast headquarters, a 1,000-room hotel, a municipal auditorium and lesser structures, and last but not least, a tree-studded park where employees and passers-by can take their ease on a noonday stroll...
Initially, the six woman chorus seemed musically uncoordinated. The chorus's military maneuvers of the middle acts seemed little removed from bumps and grinds. (Fortunately, no one in the audience seemed to notice that in his ecstasy over the organ music, the Sultan was dancing the stroll...
...have all the earmarks of slums but paradoxically have great vitality. In Boston's North End district, for example, rents are low, the blocks are small but densely populated, and small shops prosper. Streets and sidewalks sparkle with activity; everybody knows everybody else, and outsiders like to stroll there. And in the face of all the city planners' tenets, North End has the lowest delinquency, disease and infant mortality rates in the city. Yet planners keep talking of the need to "redevelop" North End, and bankers almost always refuse to lend money there for local construction. Why? Explains...