Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permit a rail strike. The question was how to avoid it. As of last week, the Administration had exhausted the 60-day no-strike injunctions provided under the Railroad Labor Act. To prevent 137,000 workers in six shopcraft unions from tying up 138 railroads by taking a walk, Johnson had to request special legislation from Congress extending the strike deadline by 20 days. By margins of 81 to 1 in the Senate and 396 to 8 in the House, he got what he wanted-but Congress was clearly unhappy about it. Even those who approved the measure objected...
...roads to open the interior of Peru to trade for the first time since the Incan Empire succumbed to the onslaught of the Spanish conquistadors 435 years ago. As the Presidents told how they were coping with their problems, Johnson would say: "You do that, and we will walk by your side...
...grimly. They didn't smile except to brush off an occasional insult from the sparse crowd on the sidewalks. The fog had lifted slightly but it was still a very gray day. Appropriately, a little boy marched beside Spock holding onto his hand. "Hey, Spock," somebody yelled. "Take a walk. I shoulda never read your book...
King and company reached the U.N. without incident after an hour's walk. They had been too quiet, too dignified to provoke trouble. But the march continued all afternoon. At 5:30 when rain finished it, thousands had yet to reach the U.N. As the marchers to the rear got younger and hippier and their slogans wittier, incidents multiplied...
Finally in the sixth inning Harvard got its bats unlimbered. Pete Smith drew a walk, Bob Cunningham and Dan Hootstein singled to load the bases and center fielder Carter Lord smacked a double to drive home Smith and Cunningham...