Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urbane and charming, with a clever turn of phrase couched invariably in excellent French. But he was also superstitious enough to blame messengers for any bad news they bore, and he was volatile and unpredictable; often Tshombe ended a conference with U.N. officials with a friendly smile, only to walk out and hotly accuse them of all sorts of perfidy...
Both the ban on Davis and the Council's original position had been protested by student walk-outs, and faculty petitions in New York colleges...
...property owners explained why they did not want their 57,000 acres of bluestem grassland taken over as a national park. Said Stewart Udall, with memories of his experience that morning: "It's too bad when a member of the President's Cabinet tries to take a walk on a hill, he is told to get off," Concluded Udall: "But the National Park will remedy that...
...three France-Soir reporters. Last week the S.A.O. struck again in the huge rabbit warren of a building on Paris' Rue Réaumur, where France-Soir is edited and printed. At 3 o'clock each working afternoon, some 20 news editors usually leave a conference and walk down a narrow staircase to their offices. On Wednesday, the conference was fortunately a little late in ending. At five minutes after 3, while the editors were still talking, a plastic bomb exploded on the stairway, destroying three rooms and starting a fire. Instead of killing any descending editors...
...because it was still a colonial territory on the Indian subcontinent. But the pimple had become a boil. "We have always been exceedingly reluctant to solve problems by use of force,'' said Nehru. "But there can be only one solution of the Goa problem. The Portuguese must walk...