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Word: walkaways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon. For another, they would probably dangle before Dubček a hard-currency loan of about $400 million that he needs for economic modernization. The Soviets might even revive demands that Russian troops be stationed on Czechoslovak soil, hoping that such a garrison could permanently discourage a Prague walkaway from the Communist alliance. Dubček might agree to admit token Soviet units to mollify Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward a Collective Test of Wills | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

Even in yesterday's 9-1 romp over hapless Brandeis, few Harvard batsmen fattened their averages. The 13 bases on balls given up by Brandeis pitching made the game an easy walkaway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peters Faces Powerful Navy Nine; Eastern League Lead Is at Stake | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...play it impeccably in any style under any circumstances, whether it is a love song to Rinso White or a complex passage in a Paganini concerto. When the Philharmonic asked him to audition last winter, he breezed through every obscure score that Bernstein thrust upon him, won in a walkaway over 40 aspirants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violinists: Distinguished Fraternity | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...princely sum in Filipino politics, to swamp the country with a deluge of political pamphlets, placards, and tear-jerking biographical movies. But last week, as 8,000,000 Filipinos went to the polls, the election turned out to be not close at all. Marcos won in a walkaway, with a margin of more than 630,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Surprise in Manila | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Warren Hearnes, 41, Missouri's Dem-ocratic candidate, scorned his G.O.P. rival Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, 68. Said Hearnes: "He has only one chance to win, and that's if Goldwater is a sensation." Hearnes was right, won in a walkaway over Shepley, former chancellor of St. Louis' prestigious Washington University and the strongest candidate fielded by the G.O.P. in more than a decade. The Governor-elect is a West Point graduate who served ten years in the state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Governors: Among Them, Romney's Ramble | 11/4/1964 | See Source »

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