Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thousand. New Hampshire's Lottery Commission had to egg-walk its way through a maze of federal rules and regulations designed to make a state lottery all but impossible. As chief egg walker they sagaciously chose a pillar of probity-ex-FBI Agent Edward J. Powers, 51, who helped break Boston's famed Brinks robbery. So far, Sweepstakes Chief Powers has well earned his $20,000 salary...
...court, the New York Court of Appeals, which ruled that the zoning plan was constitutional and should not be frustrated by using an antidiscrimination law, in effect, as a segregation law, "a result exactly opposite to its purpose." Moreover, the court noted that the white children would have to walk no farther to the new school than the old one. By a conventional court test of administrative rulings, the zoning plan was upheld because it was not "arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable...
...permanent staff, Provost and Dean John Gustad, psychologist and former liberal arts dean at Alfred University, rounded up 21 men "capable enough and nutty enough to help make a curriculum that would last long enough for us to see what was wrong. They had to be willing to walk off the end of the dock with us," says Gustad jovially. Admissions Director Robert Norwine was enticed from Wesleyan University, and he proceeded to choose 97 talented nonconformists from 1,200 freshman applicants. Tuition is stiff ($4,200 a year), but 80% of the students get scholarship...
...Bourbon throne. The American branch of the family produced several distinguished men (including Charles Patterson Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt). But the line petered out with Jerome-Napoleon Patterson Bonaparte in 1943. The great-grandnephew of Napoleon I was taking his dog for a walk in Central Park one afternoon, when he tripped over the leash and suffered a skull fracture that killed...
...Break up the double play. Go in hard. Make it hurt." Labor-management relations would remain cordial, he said, just so long as the employees remembered their place: "If I'm out somewhere and a player comes in, I don't want him to turn around and walk out just because I'm there. I expect him to say hello, have a drink-and then...