Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They thought I was a political cadaver," rang out the familiar, high-pitched voice across the public square in the industrial city of Campinas. "But the people, repeating the Bible, said 'Rise and walk,' and here I am." A year after he surprisingly abdicated Brazil's presidency and took a slow boat around the world, six months after his return to an uncertain political future, unstable, unpredictable J?nio Quadros, 45, was hard on the comeback campaign trail last week, running for his old job as governor of S?o Paulo state...
Though the bill represents a radical departure, it still leaves a loophole as wide as a walk-in vault. Only the banks know the identity of their depositors, so it is up to the bankers to determine how many unclaimed accounts fit the description. Sure enough, some bankers quickly insisted that very little-perhaps only $1,000,000 or so-remains. Said one: "Most of this flight capital was repatriated...
...useless, ugly and loathsome as the creeping puncture weed that straggles haphazardly across most of the western U.S. The puncture weed's burrlike seeds can flatten bicycle tires, foul up cotton-picking machinery, rip through horsehide and gouge cattle. Humans get stabbed by the burrs when they garden, walk barefoot or when they pitch in to a harvest. Even the puncture weed's scientific name, Tribulus terrestris-"earthly bed of spikes," takes account of the tribulations it causes...
Finally, inexorably, Gretel began to walk away, first by 20 yds., then 50, then...
...least captive audience is the one that attends the concerts of Avant-Garde Composer John Cage. Its members are always free to walk out-and frequently do. For all that, it now appears that Cage and canned music may have been made for each other...