Word: walke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change her diaper and administer the bottle and coax a belch or two and walk my lonely post, kitchen to dining room to living room and back, singing hymns to her and telling her little things about the 20th century, and sometimes she dozes off, and sometimes she weeps terribly, and nothing I do can reach her and it absolutely breaks my heart. Nothing Puccini ever wrote is so tragic as the inconsolable cry of your own child. I walk, and she screams until she gasps for breath, and I bow my head and weep. I weep. I say, over...
...believe she is finally about to sleep for a few hours in a row. I believe this in my heart. Lord, You can do it, if only You will walk across the lake and grant this little girl a little rest...
Roth acknowledges that his popularity has been boosted by his IRA legislation, which lets you sock away $2,000 a year in after-tax money that then grows tax-free. "As I walk around Wilmington," he told me, "people yell from their cars, young and old, all backgrounds, 'Hey, Bill, love your IRA!'" But what's good for Roth and for Everyman isn't necessarily good for you. The Roth, as it's known, could stand improvement. For starters, there are ridiculous income limits. Couples earning more than $160,000 a year are ineligible, and if they earn...
...King's assassination in Memphis, Tenn., triggered riots in inner cities across the country and assured his place as a martyr for the civil rights movement. But what might have happened, both to King and to the movement he led, had he not chosen to walk out on the motel balcony that night and lived to march again? Such questions are hard to answer, but they are not unanswerable. History, after all, is about not only what happened but also what, for a few small turns of events, might have happened. Indeed, what didn't happen serves to underline...
...care of a powerful relative, the acting regent of the Thembu people. But it was only after he left the missionary College of Fort Hare, where he had become involved in student protests against the white colonial rule of the institution, that he set out on the long walk toward personal and national liberation...