Word: walked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped and died before they were forced back. Finally, hardly able to walk, they made it back to the elevator, rode up the shaft, emerged dazedly into the tipple...
...Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' creation she owns...
Lleras would walk into the Union's white-columned Washington headquarters with a critical eye cocked. Recently, Newspaperman Lleras' Semana (Week) referred to former Director Leo S. Rowe's stewardship of the Union as "26 years of banquets." It stated that Rowe had been "a discreet agent for all North American policies in connection with the continent, whether of aggressive penetration or of good neighborliness." Lleras could be expected to back a more representative position...
...know. There are too many things about democracy which we students have not had time to study. All of us here walk three kilometers a day to get a meal of a little rice and radish. It is difficult to contemplate the philosophy of government under such circumstances...
...waitress in a Boylston Street delicatessen suggested that students might just as well come there in their pajamas. "Our tips depend on a rapid turnover of customers. The Harvard fellows come in and spend three hours over a sandwich and beer, and then walk out without leaving a cent," she declared...