Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities Thompson has encountered stiff, if subtle, resistance from the organization bosses, who fear that they may lose control of their districts if thousands of rediscovered Democrats suddenly outnumber faithful machine supporters. In New York, the reformers complain that Tammany workers will not walk up more than one flight of stairs to seek out new voters. But despite the bosses' roadblocks, Thompson's raiders have done a good job. Some 140,000 new Spanish-speaking Democrats have been registered in California through the Viva Kennedy Clubs. In Baltimore, Thompson's pilot city, 7,000 "unsuspected Democrats" have...
...remained: an air of geysering exuberance that seemed to reveal the dance to its emotional roots. Included were dances of tribal ritual, scenes of village life, a fairy tale about how the lions gained mastery over the panthers-all excitingly expressed in bounding leaps and spins, in sinuous, shuffling walk. The sets were sometimes too elegant and the costumes sometimes too flossy, but in one department of stagecraft the company had scored a clear triumph: New York, which last year had forced the women to wear brassieres, last week permitted them to dance bare-breasted-presumably in deference...
...Council passed five other resolutions on the subject, recommending, among other things, that the University order the lowering of the sidewalk in front of the motorscooter lot near Lowell House and the creation of a rear walk-in entrance to the lot between the Fly Club and Lowell House...
...waiting, as if by prearrangement. There the two old enemies made their first formal greetings since September 1956, but it was obvious that both were ill at ease. "How do you spend your time here?" Tito began tentatively. Answered K.: "I have a little balcony. I go out and walk back and forth and take...
...show on the road-he's flopped so often the commercial managers won't give him beans for hopscotch. So he offers the poor silly girl a theoretical part in a hypothetical show and, taking no chances on her old man, offers her a walk in church besides. Never mind he's twice her age. Never mind poor Phoebe (Brenda de Banzie), the old bag he's been married to for 20 years. And so on and on till Archie, having passed a number of bum checks, is about to be hauled off to the choky...