Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week, 47-year-old Alice McCarthy and her friend went for their usual walk in Chicago's Grant Park. Alice wore a neat suit and a plain dark felt hat. As she walked down a park path, a hand grabbed her and a male voice said: "Come in here, baby." Alice jerked away, whirled when the man threatened to shoot and dropped him with a slug in the stomach. The ambulance people arrived to gather up No. 7, and Alice walked calmly off to the station to make out her report. Then she went back...
...anywhere, say to Moscow, without the state's permission; if he is caught without a permit, he is sentenced to hard labor. He cannot even visit places like the Kremlin. I remember the Russian girl I met only once for a few minutes, during which we happened to walk past the Kremlin. Said she: "We Russians envy you foreigners. You can visit the Kremlin. We cannot...
Although Stillman Infirmary has treated no cases of heat suffocation during the heat wave, activity around the Yard slowed practically to a walk yesterday afternoon when the full force of Old Sol hit residents. Observers in Widener Library and the Boylston Reading Room reported a distinct falling off of intellectual activity during the normally busy evening session...
...Walk up the Nile. "He repeats this ritual twice in the day's first prayer (at sunrise), four times in the second (at noon), four times in the third (mid-afternoon), three times in the fourth (sunset), four times in the fifth and last (about an hour and a half after sunset). The week's most important prayer is at noon on Friday, when Moslems fill the mosques to overflowing. Inside the mosques are fountains, at which the Moslem washes in a prescribed sequence: hands, mouth, nose, face, right arm, left arm, head, ears, right foot, left foot...
...people separated by deserts and living in hard climates. Without a head prelate, a religious hierarchy or even an ordained priesthood, it has its center of activity at El Azhar University in Cairo (enrollment: 15,000). El Azhar, the largest Moslem university in the world, .draws students who walk there from as far as Addis Ababa; its graduates have vast prestige among Moslems in their own countries...