Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belgian officials wanted to helicopter him to the place, he insisted on riding the winding, potholed highway, a 1½-hour trip that the Belgians insist can be speeded up by a superhighway they have in mind. The little town itself boasts 3,171 inhabitants. Only a two-minute walk from grazing cows and wheat fields, it has four cafés, none of which will ever make the pages of Michelin. Chièvres' chief offerings are a 16th century Gothic chapel and a brewery...
...currency printing presses. For all his efforts, living costs under his regime have soared no less than 117%, and he himself has had to double the official minimum wage level. Last week bus fares in Rio rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take of all, many Brazilians of late can no longer even afford their traditional daily...
...last year that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding, properly named Shaun, and proceeded to ride off with the walk-trot-canter event, even though he had not ridden competitively for 25 years. "I am delighted and grateful to have a win at the best horse show in the world," murmured the ambassador as he accepted his prize...
...minutes later, he got up, and, along with more than 20 others and three police cars, completed the first leg of a peace walk from Boston to Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod. The first day had been uneventful--that is, the marchers had been jeered everywhere they went; they had been cussed, called cowards, and belted just a few times with eggs and tomatoes. None of this was unexpected; it's part of the routine of peace marches, and those who participate in the demonstrations understand it well...
What was not precisely routine was be absence of more serious violence. Last spring, members of the committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), he pacifist group that was sponsoring the Boston to Provincetown walk, were beaten severly in front of a South Boston courthouse. The angry mood that led to these attacks had not disappeared, last Saturday; it was merely frustrated by a Boston Police department, which, embarrassed by a conspicuous absence in front of be court, provided the march with heavy protection. In fact, wherever the march went, local police covered well. But it took only one slip to inform...