Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions and draw them into the new life that has flowed out of the Revolution. These millions are now unable to raise a cash crop to sell in the cities, and unable to buy the city's products. More than 1,115,100 of them walk barefoot, more than 4,500,000 have only huaraches. There is only one radio set for every 70, only one bed for every four...
...musine inundation of the rich, rolling wheatlands 200 miles north of Melbourne began last fortnight with no more warning than a tropical thunderstorm. Overnight, apparently from nowhere, the myriads of mice appeared. Too weak from hunger to walk, they crawled across fields and into houses, nesting in coat pockets and automobile cushions, devouring everything in sight, from kapok mattresses to sultanas on the vine. When nothing else could be found, the mice ate each other or nibbled at sleeping farmers. In desperation the farmers tied strings around the bottoms of their trousers...
There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...
...Walk barefoot through some thistles...
...moreover, was hot, and the open conference-room windows dissipated the force of the explosion. Even so, four of the 24 men at the conference were killed, and seven severely wounded. Hitler suffered burns, bruises and a partial paralysis of the right arm, but was able to walk to his quarters...