Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zinacantan, hilly and forested, does not have enough arable land to produce all the corn needed. So the Zinacantecos often rent fields a days walk from their homes, in a tropical part of Chiapas called "hot country." For weeks at a time the men are gone from home, tending their fields. During the summer, I worked with them, in return for my shelter, but especially for their friendship...
...Cuzco fortnight ago, he ignored the hail of stones to walk two miles from the airport to his hotel. From a balcony, he warned the Indians about Communism: "Do not believe their foreign doctrines, do not believe in their paradise." When a delegation of Communists demanded "in the name of the people" that he leave town, Beltran replied: "I question your claim of representing the people of Cuzco. Good day, gentlemen." When the Red-controlled Cuzco Workers' Federation tried to run him out of town with a 24-hour general strike, Beltran saw to it that local police...
...attitudes, customs, dress and manners, college girls, being natural conformists, tend to imitate one another on any one campus, but they vary from campus to campus. At some schools, girls never read the newspapers. At others, they walk around carrying the Manchester Guardian. At Oberlin, fully half the girls hope to serve overseas in some socially useful manner, from relief work to the Peace Corps. "Idealism is rampant here," says the dean of women...
...Bunting is successful in having her "Radcliffe Study Center" built somewhere near the regular 'Cliffe dormitories, in order to get reserve books the graduates students will have to walk three-quarters of a mile in a direction completely opposite to the route they follow for classes and other business...
...also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk...