Word: walking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty of time to be in his sister's flat by curfew. The two killers were waiting for them in the shadow of a nearby clump of evergreens. As Touhy and Miller went up the steps of Ethel Alesia's porch, the gunmen stepped to the walk behind them, fired low with six blasts of 12-gauge, 00 buckshot pellets...
...hill through olive groves, past herds of goat and sheep, come the worshipers on Christmas Eve to the quiet Judean town. Peasants walk to Bethlehem wearing medieval costumes, silk-hatted diplomats swirl into Manger Square in black limousines. And in entering the Church of the Nativity, all bend low to pass through the tiny door called The Needle...
...some ways, the Star is a paper of paradoxes. Many city-room staffers have to walk to a central table to make a phone call, but simply by flipping a switch on his desk, the assignment editor can put himself in instant radio touch with staffers manning the fleet of editorial cars or flying off to a story by chartered plane. The phalanx of city-room desks is liberally speckled with grey heads, most of them belonging to veterans of the staff-owned paper who cannot bear to part with their Star stock holdings, which must be cashed in when...
...Fare. In Santa Monica, Calif., city bus drivers have demanded travel time for their three-minute walk each morning from the relief bus stop to the garage...
...people think that wonder drugs, such as prednisolone, which enables bedridden arthritics to walk, cost too much, said Brown haughtily, the problem is "inadequate income rather than excessive prices." In reply, the subcommittee staff brought out that Schering bought some hormone tablets at 12? per 60 from a French manufacturer, wholesaled them as "Progynon" for $8.40 with a consumer price of $14-a 7,079% markup...