Word: walke
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...controversy once again spotlighted the shadowy tightrope of paradoxes that the Helmsmen must walk in the interests of a nation that cherishes openness and fair play. The debate pitted the Puritan ethic against the pragmatism of cold-war survival. It matched the conspiratorial methods necessarily practiced by intelligence agencies against the emotionalism of young Americans who worship honesty. It aroused the outrage of many in the academic community who-mistakenly-regard CIA as an evil manipulator of foreign policy. And the furor showed again how readily Americans, who, while seldom acknowledging the quiet and generally successful performance of their intelligence...
Back in Kenya, Leakey has seen hungry lions walk through camps past sleeping, defenseless men to stalk and kill nearby antelope. On the rare occasions when they do kill a man, he says, they merely sniff at his body and walk away in disgust with nary a taste. He also notes that the big cats feast on baboons but generally disdain chimpanzees, which are closer relatives of man and presumably give off their version of the manlike odor that these predators find so unattractive. "To this odor," Leakey believes, "we owe our survival. Man is not cat food...
There is a story about Finley, probably apocryphal. Out for a brisk morning walk along the River Charles, the Master espied two Cantabridgian fisherman. Flinging his arm up in a classical pose, he saluted, "Salve pescatores." One of the unbelieving townies turned around and growled, "Screw you, Mac." But, after all, Eliot House is surrounded by walls and sheltered by tradition. There are no windmills in the courtyard and the archway is guarded. "He's a proud lion," says one Eliot House senior in a rare Harvardian burst of sentiment. "I respect...
...holiday, may not draw a similar audience. That would leave the B.C.-Harvard game in January as this season's only full house (out of nine dates). Watson is not one of the bigger college rinks, but for some reason--be it Harvard sports spectator apathy, the long cold walk across the Larz Anderson Bridge, or the departure of Gene Kinasewich and Eastern supremacy it is also one of the emptiest. The average attendance last year was less than a thousand, and this year it is even lower...
...week outside a hospital, described the early groundwork for putting together the fifth column: "You try to talk to people as they come to work. Usually, I start by asking them if they've heard of the union at Jewish Memorial. Often they just say 'yes' or 'no' and walk on. That doesn't necessarily mean they aren't interested: it's cold or they're in a hurry. You have to expect to go slow. You have to let them take the initiative. Sometimes one will show more interest and want to talk. All the time, I'm memorizing...