Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather at Virginia Beach, Va. was too cool and blustery for the Prime Minister. A few times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to his sixth-floor suite in the Cavalier Hotel, in constant touch by telephone with Ottawa...
...Oxford-Cambridge-type individual instruction could extend. At present the only departmental criterion of a student's aptitude and interest in tutorial seems to be that of grades--usually by means of a line drawn at the bottom of Group III. But letter grades and receptivity do not always walk hand in hand. The invaluable aid which face-to-face instruction can provide, especially in the social studies, should warrant placing tutorial on a voluntary rather than an academic basis, opening it to all save that fraction whose indifference is congenital...
...Democrats that-alone-they could not carry off one of their most cherished objectives. Socialist Pietro Nenni, after a year of playing footie with the Communists, now knew that Togliatti could give him a splintering kick in the shins at will. If Nenni and his Socialists were ever to walk again, they might have to make peace with the disaffected Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat in a last, desperate effort to save the Italian moderate left from total annihilation...
...Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...
With the new treads installed, the visitor to Widener may find the marble approaches to the stacks and reading rooms less aesthetic, but he can be reasonably certain that he will walk out of the building under his own power...