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Word: walking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will sit down for several minutes bolt upright, put his hands on his knees, close his eyes, inhale four times in staccato gasps through the nose until his lungs are expanded to bursting, finally exhale through his nose in four staccato installments. Finally, he will pray. Then he will walk onstage at Carnegie Hall to play the toughest concert of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The All-American Virtuoso | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...young artist, with built-in guarantees for "longterm security." Within hours Van's concert fee jumped from $1,000 to $2,500 plus, shortly became a deal whereby Cliburn gets 60% of the receipts. Dallas outstripped everybody else by booking a concert from which Van stands to walk away with $9,000. Said the Dallas Symphony's President Mrs. Samuel Shelburn with a double helping of Texas pride: "We want to be the first to pay him his biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The All-American Virtuoso | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...survives a deadweight glossary of Hollywood stars--including Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, James Mason, Edward O'Brien, Deborah Kerr, and Greer Garson, a number of them wasting their talent and experience on bit-parts and walk...

Author: By Sam Johnson, | Title: Julius Caesar | 5/16/1958 | See Source »

...eighth inning, with one Dartmouth run in, the tying run on first, and one out, lefthander Gerry Emmet came in to relieve starter Dave Brigham and quelled the Indian attempt to score the tying run. Emmet did not give up a hit or a walk in the next inning and two-thirds...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Baseball Varsity Nips Indians, 5-4, In Bid for Its First League Title | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

Quincy House construction may be stopped by a strike this morning for the second time in a month. At 8 a.m., nearly 6000 carpenters employed in the Greater Boston area will walk off their jobs in a movement for higher wages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carpenter Strike May Stop Work At Quincy House | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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