Word: walked
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...saintly stories about one of the young suspects. Archildress Byrd, a neighbor, describes R., known for his neatly cornrowed hair, as a terror to other kids in the community, an intimidating force who always wanted his way. "He'd throw bricks and stuff at people," Byrd says. "I just walk past him 'cause he was just too bad." Says another: "R.'s been around adults all his life. If you heard him over the radio, you'd think he's a man. He has a real bad mouth." Neighbors told TIME that R. is a gang-banger with the notorious...
...Christian and was appalled by Margaret Carlson's column on Anne and John Paulk, two homosexuals who embraced Christianity and are now a heterosexual couple [NOTEBOOK, July 27]. Carlson ended her piece by saying, "Maybe the lame walk and homosexuals become heterosexuals, but I doubt it." I do not know whether Carlson is a Christian, but what she said was inappropriate. Why is it that when a person claims to be a homosexual to further the left's agenda, it is applauded, but when a person claims to be a former homosexual who was saved by Christ, that person...
...film are the parts in which mentally retarded or disabled individuals are the targets of bad jokes. It is one thing to poke fun at Healy for his gigantic, hideously capped teeth, but it becomes extremely offensive to make fun of another man simply because he cannot walk without leg braces...
...long ago, anyone at all could walk up to the Capitol, open a door and wander pretty much at will. Visitors have long needed a pass to enter the House or Senate chamber, but it was only after 1983, when a bomb when off on the Senate side, that certain corridors to the leadership offices were cordoned off, magnetometers set up at the entrances, building passes required for employees and reporters, anti-terrorist planters installed in the parking lots, streets near the Russell Office Building closed off and sweeps by bomb-sniffing dogs ordered. There have been proposals every...
Hoping to become a policeman in New London, Conn., Robert Jordan, a corrections officer, took the exam and scored well. In fact, too well. The town dropped the top 63 scorers, perhaps thinking they would be too intellectually restless to walk a beat. Now Jordan is suing the town, arguing that he's been discriminated against because he's intelligent. How common is it to be too smart for one's own good? Apparently, very...