Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoboken, N.J. one day last month, honey-haired Ruth Comfort, a University of Toronto student, was all set to walk down the gangplank of the Volendam and take the train home. Then a U.S. immigration officer began to question...
Florence's stately Parco delle Cascine (Park of the Farmsteads) is full of quiet, ponderous chestnut trees and brooding live oaKs beneath which the members of the city's best society used to walk on Sunday afternoons, exchanging courtly salutes and smiling at one another's poodles. With their customary sense of historic irony, Italy's Communists last week chose this park for the biggest, gaudiest clambake that Dante's city had seen in many a year...
...guides had to lower him 1,000 feet on ropes. Then he had to walk two miles to a hotel. On the way, Alpine enthusiast Smiley bought a picture postcard "so as to remember the place...
Margaret Clapp did not guess why the trustees were there, or why they stayed for lunch with her. That night she rode home on the subway, as usual, to her Greenwich Village walk-up and thought no more about it. But some time later her telephone rang. It was Edward Weeks editor of the Atlantic Monthly, also a Wellesley trustee. Would Miss Clapp have dinner with him? By this time, Miss Clapp had a good idea of what was up. Over brook trout and a bottle of wine at the Ritz-Carlton, Weeks began to ask questions. "Do you sleep...
...time of developing economic crisis, the few of us lucky enough to land jobs face declining wages, insecure seniority, speed-up and general campaigns of terror and sabotage against our unions. But the greater part of our young people have no jobs at all, and walk the streets in search of employment, unable to secure adequate training facilities, unable to barter trained or untrained muscle and brain for over a pittance, forming a desperate reservoir of reserve labor and an unwitting weapon against the unemployed. Many of us are former servicemen, our meager veterans allotments exhausted, our post-war dreams...