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Word: walking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Considering the care required by the children, the settlements were hardly generous. Richard can walk, run and climb stairs. He can write well with his foot-but not with his artificial right hand. He cannot wash or dress himself, go to the toilet alone or brush his hair. Although he is in school and has an IQ of 124, it is doubtful that he can go on to a university. David is immobile, except for rocking movements, and probably will be unemployable all his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Fallout from Thalidomide | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...year-old daughter, Cornelia, wanders about the maze and Erpf has made it to the center in five minutes. For the uninitiate, mastering the maze can take half an hour of trial and error. Ayrton has provided no printed explanation or map to the solution. "If a person could walk in and figure it out," he explains, "I would feel I had failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aesthetics: Knossos in the Catskills | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...kind of example for the harried leisure class. He does not own a swimming pool, a boat or a summer cottage and frowns on watching television while eating dinner, reading the newspaper or making love. His way of using consumption time -Linderese for leisure-is to take a walk somewhere. This month he and his 9-year-old son Goran will leave for a hike through the mountains of Da-larna in central Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Too Much Is Too Little | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...there's the bold, brave spring of the tiger that quickens your walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: A Most Melodious Fella | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...rawboned soldier-cowpoke was no longer raw or bony. The eyes had begun to puff, the flesh was settling. The walk away from the camera was a little too distinctive. From the back, the Wayne Levi's sometimes resembled two small boys fighting in a tent. His eleven-year marriage to Texas-born Josephine Saenz had quietly clopped off into the sunset; she got custody of their four children. After a stretch of popularity, Wayne looked less a Duke than a commoner. He was No. 33 on the list of box-office stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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