Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never dared to ask a vote of confidence from the Cortes and still dared not ask one. He knew that in a straight vote Man-With-No-Soul Azana and Snake Prieto would soon beat him. Wringing his hands, he announced the resignation of his Conservative Cabinet, started to walk out of the Cortes, jeered by Deputies who demanded that he stay and be voted down...
Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...
...automobile is as necessary to the modern student as a library! Without it, what can he possibly do in his spare hours and week-ends? Must he sit around his room all the time reading books? Or, if he wishes a little exercise, must he WALK to Soldiers field? If he wants to go to a show in Boston must he patronize the plebian subway? Really...
Since June the ambiguous wording of the law on collective bargaining has forced NRA to walk a tight-rope on "open" and ''closed" shops. General Johnson banished those words from NRA's dictionary but that did not settle the issue. But National Labor Board has conducted workers' plebiscites in an effort to determine the strength of union sentiment in strike-closed shops. But even where a majority favors union representation, the law nowhere gives that majority the right to bargain collectively for a non-union minority...
...pages of a great modern newspaper are like a thoroughfare where walk thousands upon thousands of sad, merry, desperate, frivolous, austere human beings. . . . Here and there one will pause an instant and say something that touches the heart of even the most habituated builder of that thoroughfare, as when this poor man in the moment of death thought of the 'S. F. Examiner . . . and ... a very dear little lady...