Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions about what I knew of the missile program and the international situation. I didn't detect any panic. There was just a genuine interest which I don't believe existed a short time ago." Said a Los Angeles sales engineer: "Six weeks ago I'd walk into an aircraft plant and it would look as if everybody from the chief engineer to the draftsmen was taking a coffee break at once. When I made my rounds this week, the recreation rooms were empty. Everybody was working...
Labor Candidate Dingle Foot, brother of newly appointed Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot (see below), won in a walk as the Tory vote slumped by nearly 10,000 votes from 1955. But Foot's own returns slid 5,500 votes below the Labor mark of two years ago. Biggest gainers were the third-party Liberals, who entered their first candidate since 1950, polled 20% of the total vote. Pointing to similar gains in other recent contests, Liberals talked hopefully of a big parliamentary comeback for the party of Gladstone, Palmerston and Lloyd George. More probably, the apparent Liberal strength...
Julius washed dishes in a Boston hotel, and became active in the Association of Hungarian Students in the United States. He attended the organization's summer conference in Chicago, where he was told by friendly natives, "Please don't walk alone at night...
...only intensified the struggle to seek a more abundant life. In India, for example, the market for bicycles is booming upward at 30% a year, while shoe sales are rising only 4%. Explained one village bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While modern communications have whetted consumer appetites in Pakistan as in Peoria, the danger is that nations whose production continues to lag far behind their hopes of material progress will resort to political extremes that will plunge them deeper into want...
Inside, past the black wood gate in the garden of St. Francis, absolute silence prevails. Long unoccupied benches line the walls. A disparate growth of ivy has worked half-way up the stone. The grass needs cutting and fall leaves have gathered in brown clumps on the walk...