Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists never had a chance. With his self-effacing wife, Ilo, and eleven pieces of luggage, Wallace arrived triumphantly at Broad Street station. But the Communists, their fellow travelers and their stooges-many of whom deny that they are Communists but all of whom walk the Communist chalk line-were there before him. They moved boldly into committee meetings, more quietly on to the convention floor...
Niebel refused. The pair ordered the big farmer and the two white-faced women outside and into the car, told them to take off their clothes. The automobile moved off through the darkness, finally pulled up beside a cornfield. Daniels forced the Niebels to walk out among the rustling stalks. "Kneel down," he ordered. They knelt-naked, shivering, sick with terror. West shot Mrs. Niebel in the stomach. His pistol jammed. Daniels shot her in the head. He fired twice more, and Niebel and his daughter toppled over, dying. The two gunmen walked back to their car and drove away...
...mission accomplished, Bigart was given a guerrilla guard for the 50-hour walk to government territory near Ioannina. There U.S. officers put him on the plane for Athens, where he cabled the Trib. It cabled back: "Thank God you're alive and please take all precautions, including a bodyguard." The Trib did not have to worry. The Greek government put a guard on Bigart-to keep him from slipping away again-until he left for Rome...
...time has come to walk out of the shadow of states' rights and into the sunlight of human rights," yelled Hubert Humphrey...
...announced as George L. Vaughn, a delegate from St. Louis and a member of the credentials committee; he wanted to submit a minority report. The majority had agreed to seat the Mississippi delegation. But the Mississippi delegation, Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention...