Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great pleasure, it seemed, was to stop strangers in the streets, in buses, in soda fountains, where he would talk understandingly about their problems without letting on that he was a Congressman. He took no vacations outside of a weekend or two in Montreal, where he liked to walk around the older parts of town chatting with janitors. Congressman Lane liked everybody-although he was no backslapper, no enthusiastic pal. "The only person I recall him not liking," a friend said, "was Vito Marcantonio, and he would even chat with...
...weeks after the death of M.I.T. Freshman Thomas Clark during his Deke fraternity initiation (TIME, Feb. 27), the University of Texas (enrollment 15,500) ran into some hazing trouble of its own. Wearing burlap bags, Delta Sigma Phi pledges had been ordered to drink mineral oil, play wheelbarrow, i.e., walk around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result of a neck...
...their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction is Author Harris' mastery of his offbeat scene. His charr:ters all talk...
...between the working classes and their capitalist dominators is widening at a greater rate than it ever has. "As Marx predicted," she emphasized, "the workers alone have the ambition to improve the lot of their nation and their fellow men, while all the capitalists wish to do is to walk around with mink coats on their backs...
More Arab than the Arabs, Glubb Pasha loved to recite Arab classics, finger Moslem prayer beads (though himself an Anglican), and walk hand in hand in Eastern fashion with Abdullah in the King's garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from...