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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three patrolmen were arrested after a rookie saw them walk away from a Manhattan shoe store where one door lock had been removed and a second tampered with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Bad Cops | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Star Witness Rawson Mbogwa Macharia, a frail little Kikuyu shopkeeper, testified six years ago that Kenyatta himself had given him the Mau Mau oath, that he had been stripped naked and made to walk seven times through an arch of banana leaves and to drink human blood. Last spring, hoping for money, Macharia made the rounds of Nairobi newspapers showing a letter to him from Kenya's attorney general written before the trial. In return for his testimony, the letter said, the government would reward Macharia with a round-trip air ride to England, a two-year college course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Roots of the Fig Tree | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

This precarious perch for man's soul is a long way from traditional Christian belief. Paul Tillich. Reinhold Niebuhr said once, "is trying to walk a fence between man's doubts and the traditions of man's faith. He walks the fence with great virtuosity, and if he slips a bit to one side or the other, it is hardly noticed by us humble pedestrians." There are many humble and not-so-humble pedestrians who think that no man who calls himself a Christian has any business on the fence in the first place. A fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Be or Not to Be | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...termed it "a work of art," adding "it would be a shame to tear it down." The storm also stopped construction work on Quincy House and the new Leverett Towers, and shut down the Radcliffe administration office. Though the University held classes as usual, many 'Cliffies, fearing the long walk, stayed in bed. The Coop closed at 4 p.m. to allow employees time to get home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Blankets Northeast | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

...forget about Ike's million Americans who are ready, willing and able to be the closest of friends. I'd walk-and have-three miles to have him wave at me from a car. I don't have a friend in the world I'd do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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