Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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strange to you, And you walk, an alien, in the streets...
Wind & the Wallows. In Washington, D.C., the judge dismissed a drunk charge against William Thompson after learning what made him walk with a list: "The wind was blowing awfully hard and I only weigh 119 pounds...
...carfare hike dawned bright and chilly, and Barcelona's 463 streetcars started on their runs. Not a soul climbed aboard. Subways and bus lines were also nearly empty. Thousands of people who work two jobs to earn enough to live on got up at 5 a.m. to walk to work; their bosses, even at City Hall, were sympathetically tolerant of tardiness. Word had passed that there were to be no noisy gatherings, no overturned streetcars-just the simple protest of walking or hitchhiking...
Learn to Control. The school grew out of the personal struggles of its 78-year-old founder-director, Emma Tunnicliff, who was born with a bone ailment that made it impossible for her to walk. An operation eventually cured her, but in her first joy at being able to run around like other children, she tripped over a fence and suffered an emotional trauma that prevented her speaking. Only after years of instruction from her mother did she learn to talk again and finish her education. By that time, she was determined to devote her life to other unfortunates...
...cars are "ludicrous" ("Why, you can't even get into the things"). His idea of what a car should be: a cross between a French Bugatti and the 1914 Packard he grew up in. One is beautifully disciplined; the other, "once you "got in you could walk around in it." Asks Osborn: "Why is it, when Detroit can produce an engine as fine as they do, that esthetically their taste, design and judgment aren't worth a damn? Why, the new models look like great swollen whales...