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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claimed the goings-on interfered with his space program to beat the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the moon. Already Nkoloso is training twelve Zambian astronauts, including a curvaceous 16-year-old girl, by spinning them around a tree in an oil drum and teaching them to walk on their hands, "the only way humans can walk on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zambia: Tomorrow the Moon | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...government say we got to creep before we walk," said a Kingston shoeshine boy, snapping his cloth. Then he looked up. "Hell, mon, we been creeping forever." Just finished celebrating its second anniversary of nationhood after 307 years of British rule, Jamaica is an impatient country, increasingly dissatisfied with merely creeping toward the accouterments of modern life that newly independent peoples feel they have coming to them. Jamaicans want TV sets, washing machines, new autos-and they want them soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: Race with Unrest | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Yesterday the most coveted award for literature--the Nobel Prize--was awarded to the French dramatist, novelist, psychologist, critic, and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre was notified of the selection while calmly eating lunch at a side walk cafe in Paris--a perfect set and cast for a production of Les Rhinoceros--but the actual setting for something far more absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JE REFUSE | 10/26/1964 | See Source »

JAKE: People grow old, things change, people walk through the streets of a city. They open doors, prepare meals, and suddenly they're in the bathroom and everything's green...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Muriel | 10/24/1964 | See Source »

...pelicans. He has discovered that the best way to mix with a species is to make oneself desire a female member of it." He follows a dog through town, almost becomes a dog, is "in any case no longer human." He kills a rat. He takes a long walk in the rain, sees a drowned man, tries to call his girl, gets drunk. Finally he goes the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Petrified Nature | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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