Word: walked
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South Africa's white men have decreed that South Africa's black men must carry official permits to travel, to work or be absent from work, to walk the streets after 9 p.m., to have their wives live with them in "locations" (suburban areas, usually overcrowded shantytowns, set aside for natives). Some 75,000 blacks go to jail each year because they are without proper passes. A hangover from slavery days, the pass system is a major grievance of the black majority against the ruling white minority...
...Moses did not promise the Jews 'happiness,' nor did he say they should walk in the path of the Law because he thought it a virtuous law. The Law was true because it was divine-it was God's Law, a revelation of man's place in the fundamental constitution of existence ... Men's true happiness and virtue are in adhering to this truth-because it is true...
...cents' variation here & there, would presumably fit the rest of the struck steel industry comfortably, and Phil Murray had timed it well. In Cleveland, where he had a lot at stake this week, Phil Mur ray and jovial, ruddy Joseph Larkin, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, walked smiling into a roomful of steelworker negotiators to break the news. Then, serenaded by workers' cheers and loud singing, they called a press conference to explain the settlement. President Murray was able to walk into the C.I.O.'s highly charged annual convention with a great big confident smile...
Once a student is admitted to Princeton, he finds himself in a centralized campus of high towers and Gothic arches, interspersed here and there with the usual Victorian monstrosities. He lives in a smallish room and has a male biddy, and has to walk to the basement for his bathroom and washroom. This latter difficulty is somewhat lessened by the existence of mop basins on each floor, which Princetonians use for face-washing and other purposes...
...funniest thing, though," he said "was a bunch of fellows in the Yard after graduation. They were so pied they could hardly walk. One of the soberer ones staggered up to me, pulled out his diploma case and said, "John, have a drink...