Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wallace's home state gave him over 70 per cent last night with Nixon finishing second, and Humphrey a miserable third. Elected to the Senate on Wallacc's coattails was former Lt. Gov. James B. Allen, who beat conservative Republican Perry O. Hooper in a walk. Although Democrats were expected to add to their 5-3 majority in the state's congressional delegation, all three incumbent Republicans were returned...
Nine minutes after the start of his walk, a black sedan zoomed toward Arias. Three plainclothesmen got out, collected Arias and drove him off to police headquarters. And that, it seemed, was that-unless one had read a novel published in Paris last spring, predicting on a specific October Sunday, in a city exactly like Madrid, a man wearing posters calling for free elections would stroll down a crowded street. The author of the novel was, of course, Arias...
...Initially, just as his book predicts, the public reaction in Madrid was sympathetic but skeptical. "It might work elsewhere," a student said, "but it's like a fly running into a stone wall here." Indeed, Arias was quickly indicted for two violations of the penal code. His brief walk for freedom could cost him from one month to six years in prison...
...point where he would have to throw his vote in with revolution--what a tedious perspective of prisons and law courts and worse ... No, exile would be better. Yet he loathed the thought of living anywhere but America--he was too American by now: he did not wish to walk down foreign streets and think with imperfect nostalgia of dirty grease on groovy hamburgers, not when he didn't even eat them here...
...hand, a demijohn of wine in the other. Captain Armand, a former French paratrooper and veteran of Algeria, sports a Yul Brynner pate and fights on despite bazooka fragments in one hand. Another veteran has just left Steiner. Captain Alec, a onetime British paratrooper, used to walk around with a Madsen submachine gun, an FN rifle, and a shotgun, "just in case I have to shoot my way out of this bloody place." He believed in the "little people," who, he would say in all seriousness, "will jam your machine guns and cause your rockets to misfire." He was wounded...