Word: walke
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When tourism hits a lull during the fall months, the American and European tourists who are there cannot walk a spleef's length without attracting some sort of attention from the locals. It is often hard to distinguish friendliness from salesmanship among Jamaicans, which can be off-putting--nearly every conversation leads to a proposition to buy somethings: hair braids, motor scooters, marijuana, mushroom tea, ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, or crack. But even if it seems like the Jamaican local is aiming to grab that $20 bill pasted on each tourist's forehead, these dealers are nothing to be afraid...
...close to 800 runners and a large crowd of supporters gathered at the Cambridge Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall to remember Jeffrey and run in the first annual "Jeff's Run." According to race coordinator Trisha A. Kelley, the run-walk commemorating the death of the Cambridge 10-year-old raised $15,000 towards founding a Child Assault Prevention Program (CAPP) in Cambridge schools...
...nice way to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and have a nice walk outdoors," said Ellen S. Bennett, the arboretum's manager of horticultural information...
...makes Gulliver's travels look like a cake walk," she said. "He is not only a surviving and enduring man, but he is a thriving man as well...
...sometimes been flexible as well. In 1981 California Congressman Don Edwards went with Hyde on a tour of polling places in Texas and Alabama that eased Hyde's knee-jerk opposition to preserving the Voting Rights Act. After listening to men and women describe having had to walk 50 miles to vote only to have the doors shut on them by local sheriffs, Hyde changed his position. "We were coming back home on the plane," remembers Edwards. "And he said, 'We've got to change this.' He started out very conservative and then had a total awakening." Hyde has also...