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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody Sing. When the union leaders looked mad enough to walk out, Dewey wondered out loud and apropos nothing: did they know where one of their leading union songs had come from? No? Well, on a trip to the South he once heard Negroes sing a spiritual, Jesus Is Our Leader. Later he told John L. Lewis about it and soon Lewis' miners were singing, "Lewis is our leader." The U.A.W. changed it to "Thomas" (for beefy R. J. Thomas, their president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man at Work | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...verandah and saying, 'Yes, Raja!' But they don't like Anthony Brooke-he's got a power complex. If he wants a game of golf, he phones the police to have the road cleared for his car. If we want a game, we walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: The Raja Presents | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts her cards in a gin-rummy game, Broadway gets one of the great comedy moments of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...James Aberdijian, Armenian . . . and yesterday he fell at Concord. . . . We know what you long for, James. . . . We know what your dreams were like. . . . They were as American as apple pie . . . the crunch of a hot dog when you walk on it on a cold day . . . the smack of a wet cigar when it hits you across the face . . . the rattle of cement when you're in the mixer ... the cry 'Play ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Abe's Hit Parade | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...Walk in the Sun (Dana Andrews, Richard Conte; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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