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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this guarantee," says an angry French diplomat, "there would have been no Evian agreements." Only 5,000 harkis emigrated to France after independence. But of those who remained, many thousands have been shipped off to forced labor camps. Some were put to work clearing minefields-by being forced to walk across them. Many others have been tortured, mutilated and thrown into jail along with their wives and children. As many as 10,000 may have been killed. The French, who have the harkis very much on their conscience, insist that relations with Algeria could founder if the regime continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ALGERIA | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...Detroit's most elegant new buildings, residents often play a sort of gourmet game. They walk along the corridors in the evening trying to guess who is having the roast rack of lamb, the corned beef and cabbage, or the Liederkranz cheese. It is a very easy game, but the Lalky incinerator system often provides a handicap by giving off all-pervading whiffs of old eggs and sour milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Upper Depths | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Rudolph also revealed that Cambridge would abandon its red and yellow traffic lights and will begin to install the "walk, don't walk" signal when the old signals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Officials Will Enforce Jaywalk Law | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

...have to have some uniformity," Rudolph asserted. "The other 49 states the 'walk-don't walk' system. There a lot of out-of-state people in Camge and the red and yellow signal confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Officials Will Enforce Jaywalk Law | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

...parts-bin of relatives' tics and friends' twitches. The best of her originals are members of the remarkable Minot family (Mrs. Fay Dines on Zebra), a Hudson River clan that has subsisted for 200 years on no income at all. The Minots live by dining out, and walk safely the precarious line between guesthood and sycophancy by balancing good fellowship with mordant truth telling. For an author who does not resort to burlesque, this is not an easy notion to bring off, but Author Calisher does it delightfully. She ticks off the guestly ability of each Minot forebear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Occasional Victory | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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