Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said: "An American boy is used to home and having his own room and all we have to draw on are American boys." Among the Carronade's 137 crewmen and seven officers, only the newest apprentice seamen were blase about their ship. The oldtimers were astounded. "I can walk around," said Boatswain's Mate Bill Smith, who is 6 ft. 6 in. tall, and weighs 240 Ibs. "Look at my head miss the overhead. That pastel green overhead. That Sarasota sand overhead. I've had a stiff neck for 13 years...
...Californians were more interested in buying swimming pools-at the rate of 25,000 a year. Mrs. C. T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in Deepfreeze. Oregon Journal Staffer Doug Baker made an admission in print: he had eaten the last can of sardines out of the family survival...
...wanted a G.O.P. win, even if it had to be with a candidate who owed no debt to the organization. He visited Williams' headquarters, but "it was like a morgue. No one was ever there except his wife and a couple of other people. Then I'd walk past Longstreth's headquarters and the place would be jumping. Mostly with young people, you know, amateurs. I'd meet a friend and he'd say, 'Who are ya for, Louis?' and I'd answer, 'I'm for Williams...
...Father," retorted Carolyn, "I feel no need for mass adulation." Life With Father. Around home, according to the girls, Father was lovable but incompetent. "Every Sunday he would be mumbling about getting out in the back and doing some work," recalls Carolyn, "but all he ever did was walk around with some Soilax and wipe fingerprints off the doorknobs." Goodie apparently suffered the fate of most men who must live in a feminine household...
...becomes increasingly clear that the worship of Astarte (Hollywood version) is the direct ancestor of present-day burlesque: High Priestess Lana, wearing as few beads as the Production Code, will permit, promenades along a runway above her audience, using every classic nuance of the stripteaser's hesitation walk while, as comedy relief, High Priest Louis Calhern lurches onstage in a funny hat and baggy costume, just like an oldtime Dutch comic at Minsky...