Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Covering the news in postwar Italy, according to Rospigliosi, is complicated by 1) red tape (e.g., it took five months to get a much-needed new car uncrated and "naturalized"), 2) the deplorable telephone service ("It is better to walk to your party than try to phone him"), 3) Rome's three-hour afternoon siestas, 4) the departmentalization of Italian news...
...clock every working morning, with a writing pad on her knees, she scribbles out her story. By noon, as much as 1,000 words are written and ready to be transcribed by a secretary. Then Mazo, accompanied by her poodle, Chrysanthemum, goes for a long-striding walk before lunch...
...Star-Times was already practicing what Isaacs was preaching. His instructions to his staff: "When they say, 'This is off the record,' you just say you're sorry . . . and walk out. You can always find out what [they're] trying to freeze up on. It's your job to crack that story...
...Walk, Don't Run." At Shihkiach-wang, railroad hub on the Peiping-Han-kow line some 175 miles south of Peiping, an American reported perceptible economic progress since, his visit six months earlier. The Communists had started many small industries-weaving shops, flour mills, brick kilns, foundries, machine shops-which are flourishing. He found wealthy merchants still operating. Many women had permanents which they got in reopened beauty shops...
...Kaifeng, capital of Honan province, the Communist take-over was peaceful. A U.S. woman missionary said "they came in, fired into the air and told Nationalist soldiers to lay down their arms. Civilians were told to go home-'walk, don't run.' " Commissars posted a bill of rights. One clause provided "freedom of thought and religion." Food was brought in and prices went down. Before the new policy was introduced, ton chang (the people's court) was dreaded by many middle-class Chinese. The Reds admitted regretfully that "in some places landlord and rich peasant elements...