Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trains stopped; company executives jumped to the throttles of some name trains and ran them. Travelers on one Manhattan-bound special toasted each town they passed to keep their spirits up, arrived at Penn Station hardly able to walk. The sound of lonely locomotives only emphasized the nation's paralysis. During the 48 hours of the strike, only 100 of the country's 17,500 scheduled passenger trains, only 240 of 24,000 freight trains, ever turned a wheel...
...watches. I paid $96 for mine. It's gotta be cleaned every 18 months and inspected twice a month-it can't ever vary over 30 seconds. Now, when I got to have it inspected in Ft. Scott, the Kansas end of my run, I got to walk ten blocks out of my way. What I want is for the company to pay the $3.50 for the cleaning and give me two hours twice a month for inspection time. See what I mean...
...Queen "was not greatly amused"; they all had a nice lunch. While in Paris for the Peace Conference, the Secretary went to the opera with Admiral W. S. Benson, U.S. Naval Adviser. Benson was "shocked at the near nakedness of the actresses and the risque remarks," and wanted to walk out. Says Daniels: "I quite shared his feelings but told him that as we were the guests of the French Government" it would be impolite to leave. The opera: Saint-Saens' Henry VIII...
...Crimson jumped off to a quick three-run lead in the first inning on a single, a walk, an out, an error, and two more singles, but the last half of the fifth found them on the short end of a 5 to 3 count. At this point they exploded their first five run effort in which four singles, a walk, and two errors were combined with Bill Barron's booming triple to right center field to blow the game wide open...
Along Rio's tree-fringed dockside, some 5,000 Brazilian Communists last week patiently waited for two hours in the hot winter sun to see the notable newcomer walk down the gangplank. They did not consider Jacob Surits, the new Russian ambassador and in-&-out Soviet big shot, as great as their own "cavalier of hope," Luis Carlos Prestes. But as the first Russian ambassador to Brazil in 29 years, he deserved the best welcome Communism could give...