Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Assembly's assessments for peace-keeping operations-primarily in the Congo and the Middle East-that run counter to their own policies. The U.S. threatened to invoke Article 19 to deprive the delinquents of their vote, but the majority feared that in such a showdown, Russia would walk out and wreck the organization; thus the small nations insisted on preventing a showdown-which meant no open voting. In the end, the U.S. backed away from its tough stand and allowed the Assembly to adjourn without forcing the issue...
...ultimate value is the mingling of the professional artist, with his intense personal stake in his art, and the university, so often aridly concerned with detached theory. "It is so exciting," says University of Southern California Music Department Chairman Raymond Kendall, "to walk into a studio in the afternoon and find two 18-year-olds playing in a string quartet with Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz." At Southern Illinois University, where former Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera...
...Swedish katt, in German katze, in French chat, in Spanish and Portuguese gato, in Italian gatto, in Russian kot, and in Gaelic cat. Such striking linguistic similarities, which occur profusely throughout the Babel of the world, defy coincidence. They suggest that someone who knows one language need never walk blindfold through the labyrinth of a related tongue...
Last week Pat finally went home. She could manage a few words and she could feed herself with her left hand. With her right she tried the first tentative caressing movements when baby Ophelia, ten months old, was put in her bed. She was already trying to learn to walk again. Her obstetrician thought there was a good chance that she would even fulfill her ambition of enlarging her family by carrying to term the baby which she intends to have delivered in England. At week's end though her speech was still limited, Pat Dahl was able...
...over in ten minutes. Shoes, jackets, pools of blood, torn picket signs, plastic helmets--all these remained in the wake of the people. Grass lawns were torn up and the excited horses left dung on porches and in the streets. Now the people walked back to the Jackson St. Church. A Negro man clutched his head and moaned repeatedly while his friends helped him walk. Two white boys clutched handkerchiefs to stem the flow of blood from their faces. Two people remained behind, unconscious; the police put them in ambulances...