Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cried Molly Piontkowski, a diminutive Polish woman, one of 13 angry witnesses who appeared before the committee. "You don't do a damn thing." Asked by Javits if she knew of "people actually suffering from hunger," she replied: "Are you kiddin'? Are you kiddin'? You can walk down the street in east Los Angeles and seven families out of ten on a block are barely existing." Said Catherine Jermany, a huge black woman who heads an organization known as the Los Angeles County Welfare Rights Organization: "I'm tired of this jive! This whole welfare thing...
...bullet fractures a Marine's leg, yet he continues carrying a wounded squad mate on a stretcher for a mile to the evacuation area. Hot shrapnel severs the leg muscles of another Marine so badly that doctors later say that he should have been unable to walk, yet he runs more than 200 yards to a medical-aid station. A man with a smashed knee crawls 40 yards to a mortar position, props himself on his elbows, and helps load shells for five hours before reporting his wound...
...original plans called for Apollo 11 astronauts to remain sealed inside their spacecraft until it was lifted to the deck of the recovery carrier. There, they would walk through a plastic tunnel running from the hatch of the spacecraft into a hermetically sealed van on the carrier deck. Following a similar transfer from the van to Houston's sealed Lunar Receiving Laboratory (TIME, Dec. 29, 1967), the astronauts were to continue under strict quarantine for a total of 21 days. Recently, however, NASA officials began to have second thoughts about the discomforts the astronauts would endure if they were...
...that we can preserve, much less refine our sensibilities only so long as we are in dynamic possession of them. We lose something every time Nixon makes a speech, or a Vietnamese hamlet is secured, or a superhighway inaugurated, a tinderbox subdivision implanted. We gain something each time we walk around a garden, rediscover a color or notice a refraction, see a movie by Sternberg or Renoir, vivify a remembrance, or enjoy a great work of music. There is an intense beauty in moving among this America of sloths in the avantagarde's mood of incorruptible hostility...
With the game apparently wrapped up, Kalinoski showed signs of tiring in the ninth as he lost some of his speed and control. A walk issued to Tom Migliaccio and consecutive singles by Jack Freeman and Crowley scored two tallies. With two out, pitcher Jeff Sones singled to bring the tying run to the plate, but Kalinoski forced VanderVeer to ground out to short and saved the victory...