Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flashy press. The Aston Villa soccer team canceled an out-of-town match because the wives of the members would not be left alone. Nurses on the night shift in all local hospitals were escorted to and from work in special buses, and movie usherettes ganged together rather than walk home alone. But the brutality of the murder was not the only thing that shocked Britain last week. The other was the strange behavior of the passengers...
...family head jerks his head, the diviner has a suspect. The local misheke then produces a poison from the powdered bark of the ihumi tree and, gathering all the villagers to drink, spikes the suspect's cup with his lethal potion. After four drinks, the suspected witch must walk or run through the village, to spread the poison through his body. If the victim vomits the poison and does not die. he is declared innocent of the charges; if not, his body is left on a small platform of reeds outside the village for a day, and then cremated...
...Merry Men. In London, TV Star Alan Wheatley, who plays the villainous sheriff of Nottingham on the Robin Hood show, complained: "Children climb trees around my house and fire arrows at me as I walk in the garden...
...From a walk-up apartment on Berkley St. to which he has moved with his family, Dean Bundy explains that his home will be used to house students in the fall because of the destruction of the Leverett Towers. "We had to make room somewhere," he goes on. "I want you to understand that this is not expansion--we just happened to admit more this year." The next day, Dean Munro comments that he could "put up a few" in his newly-built $125,000 house. Failing to nominate a Democrat, the Democratic Party convention offers the running to Nelson...