Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Benjamin Thompson, a native of Woburn (who by the way used to walk to Harvard daily with his friend Loammi Baldwin, the discoverer of the Baldwin apple) was long-lived, he did not live into the 20th Century...
...rank and file of America for the first time and discovered the huge gap between those who kept up with events and those who did not. That set them to thinking about getting news and knowledge to a wide variety of people. One night they took a long walk through the drill ground and the piny woods beyond, talking about "the paper" that they might some day found. As Luce later said: "I think it was in that walk that TIME began. On that night there was formed an organization. Two boys decided to work together...
...ability was as decisive a factor in the company's success as his editorial and news judgment. For many months, he concentrated on getting LIFE going, leaving his other magazines?Time Inc. had also acquired ARCHITECTURAL FORUM ?pretty much to themselves. While LIFE was growing strong enough to walk on its own, Luce reorganized management by announcing that henceforth every magazine would have its own publisher as well as an editor. At the same time, he would become editorial director of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE...
...John Wesley Bishop. "Why are you leaving?" Bishop asked. "Because you are talking about irrelevant things," the man answered. Bishop then explained to his puzzled congregation that the incident had been carefully staged. He went on to make the real point of his sermon-namely, that the world will walk out on the church unless it is committed to acting upon man's real concerns...
Less Blood, Much Bumf. "Awfully chic to be killed," remarks one of them, Charles Stringham. In the first novel, Stringham was an elegant, clever schoolboy at Eton. Now, after walk-on parts in later books as a sophisticated, droll, despairing alcoholic, he appears as a wry, dry, still witty private working as a waiter in an officers' mess at a divisional headquarters in Northern Ireland. Here, as in other scenes, the denizens of Powell's world-upper-class intelligentsia with outposts in the City, the aristocracy and in the upper bohemia of the theater, journalism, painting and music...