Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wichita, Kans., laborer could not climb stairs or walk more than a few steps without feeling an exasperating pain in his legs. He did not know it but the arteries leading to his legs were clogged with a fatty cholesterol-like substance-what physicians call an atheroma. But that was the least of his troubles. The deposits were also forming in the neck arteries that feed the brain. If nothing were done, Herman Key was headed for a stroke...
PARKINSON'S disease presents a distressing set of symptoms. The patient suffers from shaking palsy. His gait becomes abnormal, and eventually he cannot walk. Finally there is a boardlike rigidity to his entire body that renders him immobile...
Curly Combs led off the Crimson fifth with a homer, and in the sixth Mike Patrick singled, moved to third on a walk and a fly ball, and scored when Ferrari misplayed Rucker's grounder...
...death, Moore had been stopped by an investigator from the Alabama State Police. "I asked him to call off his walk or at least to take off the integrationist signs he was wearing," the investigator later told a New York Times reporter. "I warned him about the racial situation in Alabama but he wouldn't listen. He told me in a very nice way that he wanted to prove something and couldn't if he turned back." Half an hour later Moore was dead...
Unfortunately, after this mad beginning The Man slows down to a walk. Worse yet, TV's Telly Savalas (The Untouchables, The Witness), cast to type as the card-carrying hoodlum, almost succeeds in heisting the show from Danny when in the last reel, Telly-on the Diners' Club-rents Avis Fords, gladiolus bouquets, peony-print bridesmaids' outfits, redheaded office girls, and messengers on bicycles to stage a gangland wedding getaway. Danny Kaye does not even have a git-gat-gittle patter song to reassure audiences that they are watching him and not Jerry Lewis. What...