Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added point to his warning that racist chaos would wreck the boom. He rolled up landslide margins amid the new factories of the boom: 78% in Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale), 72% of the vote in Dade County (Miami), 69% in Pinellas County (St. Petersburg). He is sure to walk away from G.O.P. Nominee William A. Washburne in November...
...desperately accepted a bad bargain, swapping diplomatic recognition for the release of a handful of war prisoners. His intimates say he returned to Bonn last September feeling he had been broken by blackmail and hating himself for it. Three weeks later, weary, downhearted and restless, he took a lonely walk one foggy night along the murky Rhine, hands clasped behind his back. Next day he came down with bronchial pneumonia...
That night of the providentially forgotten key was the beginning of a tide of hungry, hard-bitten little boys that has flowed into Mater Dei ever since. At last, one day Father Borelli felt sure enough of success to walk among the scugnizzi in his clerical robes. No one recognized him until he produced a snapshot of himself dressed as a scugnizzo. First they gaped in astonishment, then they crowded in to touch his habit and kiss his hand...
Marx Approach. Von Karman never married, but this does not mean that he ignored women. At parties, explains a Caltech professor, he always took "the Harpo Marx approach. He'd walk into a room, glance around for the most attractive woman in the place and make a beeline for her." When he got there, his Hungarian charm took effect. (His favorite definition of a Hungarian: "A man who goes into a revolving door behind you and comes out ahead...
...Villejuif, near Paris, reported in Presse Medicale that fully a third of the operators have feelings of "profound lassitude" or "veritable annihilation" at the end of a day. Some are so shaken that they take subways in the wrong direction or wander aimlessly in front of speeding autos. Many walk home, to settle their seething tempers before facing families. Few can concentrate on any intellectual activity. Reading is difficult. More than half cannot sleep restfully, and 38% suffer from full-scale insomnia. Other effects: depression and thoughts of suicide, hypersensitivity to noise, palpitations, stomach troubles, nightmares, buzzing in the ears...