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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the guards with a barrage of Bren and Sten gunfire, turning aside only to kill any passengers from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped the dead and wounded of all their clothes and possessions, rounded up those who could still walk, and forced them to shoulder the loot and carry it off into the jungle. One young girl, thrown between two coaches and caught by the neck, was stripped naked and left to strangle to death in the trap, unaided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Red Holiday | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...prove that Jesus Christ is stronger than Tikoloshe, Pastor Majola routed out his congregation at midnight to watch him walk alone into the dark church. It did not end the crisis, but it helped. "They are gradually coming back," he said this week. "But when I preach, their eyes wander all the time to the broken pulpit as though they expect to see Tikoloshe suddenly jump out. With God's help I shall get back my church and my people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tikoloshe in Church | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...from its cozy palship with God, it generates a Gorkian power in chronicling the rise and fall and rise again of a grade-A juvenile delinquent from Manhattan's Lower East Side. It also gives a merited big chance to Actor Paul Newman, 31. who seemed doomed to walk forever in the shadow of Marlon Brando. Newman is still chock full of Brando mannerisms-the animal clumsiness,'mumbled speech and hunched shoulders-and he shambles through his scenes as precariously upright as a dancing bear. But there is strength in everything he does, and his occasional tenderness with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Existentialism, unlike traditional philosophies, does not try to think its way above or beyond man's subjective moods-it glorifies them. Fear and trembling, guilt and death, are valued by existentialists as concomitants of man's encounter with the void around him and his necessary decision to walk forward in the darkness. For existentialism, in spite of all its talk, is a philosophy of action; words by themselves do not count. "One who murmurs in his beer, 'I wish I were dead,' " writes Michalson, "would only be really existing if he were at that moment quaffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who's an Existentialist? | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Fargo, N. Dak., minutes after Mrs. Garner Halvorson had finished singing "Bless these walls, so firm and stout" in the Plymouth Congregational Church, the plaster fell from the walk and part of the basement ceiling crashed to the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

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