Word: walking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...release from pain and toil, and his passing into a happier life. Even the titles of the spirituals they play express a bittersweet longing for the release: "Just a Little While to Stay Here," "My Life Will Be Sweeter Some Day," "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "Bye and Bye, When the Morning Comes...
...BACK over to the funeral home just in time. They were bringing the body out already. The casket was almost hidden under wreaths of flowers. As it passed by the band, we played "Just a Closer Walk with Thee," in dirge tempo. The crowd was silent as the mourners in black followed the casket. One heavy old woman with fleecy white hair was weeping into a handkerchief and singing out the words of the hymn in between sobs. Her rich voice wailed above the brass with a clear, poignant tone...
...walk all they way to the cemetery, so we had to "cut the body loose." The band walked over to the side of the street. Fats Houston paced soberly in front of the hearse as it crept past the band. We were playing "Nearer my God to thee." At about the middle of the block, Fats moved to the side, and bowed gracefully to the hearse. It moved on under the crossed banners of the benevolent society, picked up speed, and was soon out of sight...
...that point the Indian's star-reliever, Jim Bell, ran into control problems as he walked four and yielded three hits in the bottom half of the inning. Dartmouth hurt its own cause with a wild pitch and a pass ball on an intentional walk, and Turco and Dorwart then delivered clutch singles...
...Ronson Lighter. The imaginative leap from adolescent affluence and argot to a perception of teen-age attitudes is what gives Absolute Beginners its moral energy. The novel would be no more than a cheerful nature walk from the Elephant and Castle to Notting Hill if Maclnnes did not see beneath all the apparent irresponsibility. What he finds is the fusion of caring and a concern for style that leaves young people unimpressed by questions of race or war or money...