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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chemical introduced last week by Fort Worth's Western Co. of North America. Sprayed on the street and hosed with water, the chemical, which goes under the trade name "Rio-Trol," produces a surface ten times as slick as ice-and ten times as hard for rioters to walk on. Still in the early stage of experimentation by at least one company is a tranquilizer dart-a kind of instant Miltown-that could be fired from a distance, yet reduce any suspect to euphoric nonviolence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riots: Gentle Persuasion | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

After every Lindsay "walk," follow-up teams are sent within a week to remedy complaints. The mayor has no illusions that the palliatives, such as garbage cleanups and street cleaning, will make a vast permanent difference, but he senses that they give residents hope and spirit. The slums, in turn, usually respond with electric excitement whenever he appears. Older men and women hang out of their windows, children clutch at his hand, and teen-agers-usually the troublemakers-tousle his hair, heckle him good-naturedly, challenge him to a ball game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Walks on the Wild Side | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...engaging irony: After a million people have anxiously awaited the new album, spent the price of a steak dinner on it, and have left work early in hot anticipation of hearing it, Ringo sings "What would you do if I sang out of tune/ Would you get up and walk out on me?" However, Ringo's main appeal is for a "little help from my friends." This is followed by a fantasy, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which is followed by a shaky hope that after a lousy childhood things are "Getting Better, since you've been mine"; followed...

Author: By Billy Shears, | Title: Sgt. Pepper's One and Only | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

Clinical Detachment. Such a man naturally attracted many biographers-ten in all-and played dashing walk-on parts in innumerable histories and memoirs. His eleventh, Fawn M. Brodie, has shown her skill before (Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens, Mormon Joseph Smith). She intrepidly explores the intrepid explorer, and in Burton the mystery is darker than any continent. He is a hard chap to map. His source may lie in the Peaks of Paranoia or the Pools of Narcissus. It is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Saga of Ruffian Dick | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...Lady Macbeth is egging her husband on, Colicos not only says, "Prithee, peace," but also strikes her to the floor in anger. This man is no willing regicide. When he first meets King Duncan face to face, he kneels loyally and stays there until the king himself has to walk over and pull him up by the shoulders...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Only Colicos Excels In So-so 'Macbeth' | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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