Word: walking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What of the Women? There are no bar girls to be found in any of the villages. The men, after a day's farming in the stony fields, or, at Gravia, in the bauxite mines, stroll to the cafe, lay down their crooked walking sticks and sip ouzo or Cretean tsikoudhia while they play cards and talk. The women, too, work the fields, and for diversion "they have their Sunday evening walk," says a village elder in Aghia Paraskevi. "On Sunday evening, everybody gets into the streets and walks up and down until they get tired." A young Gravian...
...Graham philosophy of movement evolved from a desire to expand the stylized, confining vocabulary of ballet, which had been worked out largely as a series of infinite variations on two basic motions, the walk and the bow. To Graham, any human movement was a dancer's possibility, the fall to the floor no less than the leap into the air. She brought the alphabet forward from A and B all the way to Z. She emerged when Sigmund Freud was a major cultural hero. Partly as a result of his influence, she developed a symbolism that replaced ballet...
Tommy Wynne, another member of the golf team, said that cockiness helps beat the opponent. "The other guy knows that you have won the Easterns, so he is a bit scared. When you walk out cocky it really scares the hell out of him." Wynne said...
After getting dressed, I sat out in the sunny field, downing lumps of sugar, my plan for extra energy. Then it was time. I began to walk to the starting line, a few hundred yards away. I lined up in the very back because I planned a slow start and feared getting trampled...
With the score tied 1-1 in the top of the ninth, Dorwart easily retired the first two batters, but yielded a triple to left-fielder Bill Medea. The Eagles then brought in pinch-hitter Mike Whitney and Coach Loyal Park decided to walk Whitney to get to second-string catcher Rich McGlauglin...