Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more it began to look as though compromise and the Dawson line might founder on the political facts of life. Last week pressure from Negro voters (who could conceivably tip the balance in nine Northern states) was beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro delegates walked out of the First Congressional District Democratic convention in an argument over national-convention representation, and powerful Michigan Democrats were threatening privately to force a rip-roaring national convention floor fight to get a strong civil-rights plank in the Democratic platform. If they try, they will get considerable Northern support...
That reminds me, we must turn soon. My legs are going fast. What's that Ralph? A big hill? We'll never make it. I am peddling as hard as I can, Ralph. Bike is slowing down, not moving at all. We walk...
...seldom), his eyes assumed a far away look. When in his cups (which was often), a scar under his nose and the three moles on his cheeks stood out from his flushed face. He offended the French by saying that in Paris (which he has never visited) "you cannot walk down a street without being accosted by a woman." Such bluff, blunt indiscretions were at least human−and something new in Soviet foreign relations. But this...
...Niemeyer has housed the elevator in a separate wedge-shaped structure.* To cut costs, stops will be made only at the top and at the fifth floor (given over to communal TV rooms, library, nursery). This economy measure, Niemeyer confidently predicts, will give apartment dwellers who will have to walk up or down to their front doors the "desirable illusion" of living in a two-story building. ¶ From Berlin's Ludwig Lemmer came the plans for a new Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church, going up on the ruined foundations of the old Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Main feature: a tall...
...Construction Exhibition. Their twofold purpose: 1) give the world an on-the-spot look at their new architecture and construction; 2) put on display West Berlin's answer to East Berlin's mile-long Stalinallee, done in approved Moscow style. West Berliners expect to win in a walk. Stalinallee, with its small windows, warped doors, faulty plumbing and fallen idol, is already being called "The Street of the Great Mistake...