Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back in Business. Teller's "if" is enormous-but practical. To save lives and limbs under nuclear attack, the U.S. needs "deep underground shelters [so numerous] that in any densely populated area in this country people can walk to a shelter within 15 minutes." Stored in the shelters would be food, medicines, communications equipment, decontamination devices, and mining machinery for digging out through blast-blocked entrances. "These shelters," he writes, "could provide protection, not only against the radiation hazard, but also against the biggest immediate hazard, the fire-storm...
...years in the House of Commons. As the Speaker broke in to move adjournment, Eden fell back onto his seat, head lolling on the green cushioning as he stared vacantly upward. Only when a colleague tugged at his arm did he heave himself to his feet and walk into the lobby to vote. "There goes a 'done' man,'' said one watching...
...tactless Thomas Dehler, whose head-down charges in futile quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
...Walk on the Wild Side
...hand Captain Bob Gilmor his first defeat of the season, 8-6. Friedman built up a 6-2 advantage during the first period with three takedowns, but several times in the second period, the referee forced Gilmor to release holds which hurt Friedman's leg, while allowing Friedman to walk it off, rather than stopping the match...