Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with R men. If he expected the Hungarians to accept this meekly, he was mistaken. Undaunted, the workers gathered in factory yards and planned a united protest. A young boy, one of many braving the R men that day, distributed leaflets on Marx Street: "Don't walk in the streets between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Friday. Stay at home and sympathize with the strike...
...moment, though, it is enough that now he can walk down a strange street in a strange city on the underside of the world and compete again for the biggest possible prize. It is enough for a young man of 24 to know that his achievements can mean something as long as Olympic games are held, as long as youngsters anywhere, from the steppes of Russia to the African veld, strive to run faster, throw farther, jump higher than anyone else in the world...
...company's grand brick structure which suggests a utilitarian Mem Hall, is but a ten minute walk from the Yard, lying between the Charles and Putnam Square on Massachusetts Avenue. It contains not only a factory, but also a retail sales room, for anyone in the market for a paper collar. Customers are infrequent, but just a few days ago a Royal Navy captain, whose cruiser was docked in Boston, ran out of detachables (still popular in Her Majesty's Service) and dispatched a jeepload of sailors to pick up a carton...
...grateful that the foundations of freedom in our nation grow stronger with each passing year, giving hope to fettered peoples that they may walk as free men unafraid; that the yield of our soil and the production of our factories have been abundant, enriching our lives and enabling us to share our bounty with less fortunate ones in other lands; and that the forces of nature are being harnessed for peaceful purposes, bringing limitless possibilities of comfort and happiness both to ourselves and to future generations...
Happily, something extra-and even, in Michael Kidd's case, extra-special-is sometimes supplied. If the Dogpatchers can be dull when they walk, they are dazzling when they run. Choreographer Kidd's Sadie Hawkins Day ballet is a wonderful matrimonial chase in which Al Capp's womenfolk become amorous Keystone Cops. In the Visigothic descent of the Dogpatchers on General Bullmoose's formal ball, Kidd has created one of the memorable shambles scenes in Broadway history. And for the show's rousingest music, Jubilation T. Cornpone, Kidd has made a packed stageful of bodies...