Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last words about Eisenhower, Hughes quotes Winston Churchill: "The only guide to a man is his conscience: the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so mocked by the failure of our hopes; but with this shield, however the Fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor." Says Hughes: "I know that President Dwight David Eisenhower always believed this. And I believe he will be so remembered...
...Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup, 58, came due for a bit of ribbing when the Indiana Society of Washington named him "Hoosier of the Year." But Shoup, a native of Battle Ground, Ind., took it in stride when the band played Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk. In his acceptance speech, the general warmed anew to the pleasures of the great outdoors, complimented Wife Zola, his faithful camping companion on many a ... But then he stopped himself. "What have I said? I hope the whole world doesn't take off on a camping spree next week...
...take one more step," his mother ordered one day, as Cassius started down the front steps. Deliberately, he took one-just one -more. His mother said. "Daddy will strap you," and sent him to bed. Cassius used to dream that some day he would be big enough to walk around the block all by himself and not worry about that one step. And he talked about "getting a wheel and wheeling around that block...
...invitation came with a letter explaining the rules of the contest: each university would conduct a walk on its own territory, and the winner would be the college with the higher number of participants completing the hike. St. Andrew's is sponsoring the affair in order to publicize a "charity drive" and also to "demonstrate Canada's recognition of President Kennedy's physical fitness program...
...course not even this moral is devoid of satire. O'Hara seems to say make good friends and make sure they're rich. O'Hara continues to explore the ramifications of friendship in "The First Day," and in "A Short Walk from the Station." In these stories attempts at friendship are rebuffed. He stresses love in "Jurge Dulrumple," where the love of two women for each other precludes their loving George Dalrymple. The frequency with which man's search for spiritual love fails provokes O'Hara's constant, and notorious, descriptions of promiscuity in modern America. Men must seek sexual...