Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airport parking lot, where we lie down holding a magnetic encoded ticket that enables the conveyor system to switch us through the checking-in procedure and onto the plane. Then we can say to the fellow on the next stretcher: "Remember the old days when we had to walk nearly half a mile...
...Stevenson is a fascinating and familiar subject. "I remember him first during the 1952 campaign, when he abandoned it to deal with a prison riot back in Illinois. From a hilltop I could see him, a somewhat incongruous figure in a brown Brooks Brothers hat and a Chesterfield coat, walk into the prison courtyard and calmly sway a frenzied mob into returning to their cells with a warning that he would order the guards to fire once at the ceiling and then to fire directly at the rioters. The fusillade aimed at the ceiling was enough; the strike was over...
White Funeral. War's end brought political squabbling, economic hardship and an exhausting rebellion in the East Indies, and Wilhelmina found it was too much for her. "I have finished my walk," she said, and in September 1948, her golden jubilee as Queen, she turned the throne over to her only child, Princess Juliana...
...reveal a trophy room hung with "guns ranged in big racks, ticketed with numbers corresponding to a register in which were recorded the shots fired from each. "There were, each summer, strolling players who would politely request per mission to perform in the theater. When someone went for a walk, there was a carriage assigned to follow at a sedate pace in case they tired...
...some felt extremely uncomfortable when they did come. One said, "I come there, take my plate and wonder what I'm there for." Convinced that this problem could be easily solved, Miss Smith remarked, "Most of the scholars are not basically shy, but they find it difficult to walk into a dining room where they know no one. If a student personally invited a scholar, the woman would be delighted...