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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas made excellent parking lots. But office blocks are going up on the bomb sites -bringing more cars into the center of town and simultaneously eliminating places for them to park. Creeping toward home from work in the rush hour, Londoners must often leave their cars a 20-minute walk from their front doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Traffic Jam | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...orderliness, still precarious, is the accomplishment of President Romulo Betancourt, 51, the veteran politician who led Socialist-minded Acción Democrática (A.D.) to victory over a Communist-backed coalition at the polls. Betancourt must still walk a line between the Communists, who wield ominous power with the Caracas street mobs, and the armed forces, intact and distrustful of both A.D. and the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The New Orderliness | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...five-hour walk among the city's "few central brick structures" and along the "muddy lanes" beyond, Yiddish-speaking Reporter Frankel "heard no more than four or five Yiddish conversations." He found Yiddish disappearing from the street signs, as it has already from the schools and the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Visit to a Promised Land | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...tell these fellows, 'Don't wait 20 years. Tell me what you would do if you were in my chair.' " Chuck Percy started climbing to that chair almost from the time he learned to walk. Son of the Bell & Howell office manager, he began selling magazines at the age of five, at New Trier high school he held four jobs at once. At the University of Chicago ('41), he ran a business that grossed $150,000 a year selling supplies to fraternities, and thus was, recalls former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins, the richest kid who ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Platform Writer's Platform | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

With Tufts ahead 2 to 0 in the second, Tom Bone's walk started a Yardling rally that put the visitors ahead to stay. Successive hits by Marc Kolden and Bob Sellig, an infield error, a walk, and two line singles by Dave Morse and Phil Bernstein scored six tallies. Then, after complaining long and loud about a called ball, Jumbo pitcher Bob Fuller was ejected by umpire Fred Lawrence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Down Tufts Nine, 12-6 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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