Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope of his was most heartily endorsed by the celebration at the Fensgate last night. "There is no reason," he says, "why Africans and Europeans should not be able to walk together, with a certain respect for each other...
...Many Customers. On opening day last June, 60,000 people, more than twice the number anticipated, came to Freedomland. This might have been good, but it was bad: the crowd struggled to walk through the semicompleted park, raised a storm of complaints and bad feeling. This was only the beginning of the trouble. A few days later, a stagecoach overturned, injuring ten people. Then three hoodlums robbed Freedomland's cash-control office of $28,836, and escaped. They were nabbed last week with only $14,563 left...
...left the characters squirming about with an embarrassing lack of privacy, like residents of a motel whose walls had suddenly been plucked away, but it robbed the reader of the harmless delusion that the author was attempting literature. The present work reinstates a page or two of classy nature-walk prose, but cuts out almost all narrative...
...pianist. "A minor war wound of no lasting consequence," shrugs Michelangeli. But since the war, his health has been poor; he has played less and less, behaves with growing eccentricity. During rare recording sessions, he will sit pondering for hours before placing hands to keys, or walk out to take the speeding air in his car. Or he may smash an offending master disk over his knees, as he did at Naples a few years ago, destroying two weeks' work. On the concert stage he is equally unpredictable, sometimes performing in a sport coat or overcoat before audiences...
With every rival conquered, Rafer John son later reaffirmed his decision to retire from the decathlon. "Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for abou four hours and look at the moon," said Olympic Champion Johnson, "I don' know where-just walk, walk, walk. I've got to unwind. I'm through, man, I'n through...