Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the spongy swamps, thick jungles and steaming heat, it was a walk over for the "rats of Tobruk"-Australia's 9th Division. The Japanese, as usual, left only rearguards around the beach, and pulled back into the mountains and jungles with 2,000 to 5,000 troops. On the first day the Aussies found only 61 enemy dead and took one prisoner; they lost not a single man in the landing...
...pretty important to know just why this conference is being held. And if you don't know the purpose of it, don't feel bad, because a lot of adults don't either." His eye sharpened: "I saw an interesting and pretty hat walk into the dress circle today - it turned out to be Hedda Hopper under it." He pontificated : "On the whole, I'd say the conference has done remarkably well." In Boston, Editor Canham, well pleased with his new columnist, suggested that Kenneth could stand a few spelling lessons but might one day become...
...Control Council is supposed to coordinate all four administrations and make this quadruped walk like a man. But, according to a previously unknown provision, the Council can do nothing unless its decision is unanimous. Lacking unanimity, the four powers may proceed independently in their individual zones. By withholding agreement, any member power could free itself to pursue its own policies & purposes in its zone...
...aftermath was bitter. The British had hardly halted the French shelling of Damascus and taken over the city (TIME, June 11) before Syria's President Shukri el-Kuwatly said: "This generation of Syrians will not tolerate seeing one Frenchman walk through the streets of Damascus." In neighboring coastal Lebanon, anti-French feeling mounted. When Lebanese demanded that "something be done here as was done in Syria," they meant that British troops should eject the French from the newly sandbagged public buildings and from street-corner barricades in Beirut, where the French last week emplaced machine guns...
...Naples you may come home and find a goat in your bed. In China, when you wiggle your ears, people walk backwards in front of you trying to learn the trick. Algiers is a very provincial place, and India's great Taj Mahal is a piece of architectural corn...