Word: walked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable thing about walkers is their deceptively fast speed-8 m.p.h.-about twice as fast as the average person's brisk walk, and two-thirds as fast as the best men run a mile. The trick is to whip up a hot pace while keeping the toe of one foot on the ground until the other heel hits (both feet cannot be off the ground simultaneously...
With five laps to go, Laskau began walking away with the race. In third place, Weber's wiggles were becoming less pronounced. (Says he: "If you run fast and you get tired, then you can walk. If you walk fast you get completely exhausted, and there's nothing for you to do but sit down.") Laskau won by about 75 yards over Fred Sharaga, 38, who had taken three weeks off from his engineering job to train for the race. Weber came in third. That qualified all three to be named as the team to walk...
...parties, silk hats, first nights, and baseball games. Some of its sidewalks sparkle (because of mica in the concrete). Its cab drivers, individualists all, deliver wild, cheerful or threatening monologues on world affairs. Its well-barbered women worship fashion; they shop like stalking tigresses, dress like lady spies and walk with a provocative...
...changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
39th Generation. The little man with the grave manner and impish smile, courtly graces and arrogant attitudes, had waited long to become cock of the Arab walk. He was not likely to risk losing that position...