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Word: walking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading at the end of the first day, we might pull a Penn and walk out," Essick said in reference to a stunt the Quakers executed here several weeks ago. After their medley relay swimmers captured the opening event, the entire Penn squad walked out, declaring it was quitting while still ahead...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Swim Team to Vie for Eastern Crown | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

...expect the Crimson to walk away with the Eastern Seaboard crown this weekend even if the aquamen did tie for the EISL title. But then again, don't be too startled if there are a few surprises in the next couple days...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Swim Team to Vie for Eastern Crown | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

...well. Though the tune may change, their sad song always conveys the same message: Alma Mater, that grand old dame at whose dugs they were once suckled on the sweet nectar of collegiate knowledge and sociability, is no longer, alas, what she once was. When the sad alumni walk past those ivy-bedecked, Roman numeral-inscribed walls, they can tell, almost viscerally, that something is different. Though they are never quite sure what that something is, they know it was better when they were students...

Author: By James B. Witkin, | Title: Pride, Privilege and Prejudice | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...last April is a prime example of news distortion. An editorial last summer in The New York Times, titled "Cambodia's Crime," summed up the official view of events there. It spoke of millions of people from Phnom Penh and other cities "forced by the Communists at gunpoint to walk into the countryside without organized provision for food, shelter, physical security, or medical care." It concluded that Cambodia "resembles a giant prison camp with the urban supporters of the former regime now being worked to death on thin gruel and hard labor...the barbarous cruelty of the Khmer Rouge...

Author: By R. LEE Penn, | Title: Red Scare Over Cambodia | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...summon up the courage to walk out and go live by yourself? Where did you spend your nights? Who gave you the idea of asking Monsieur Bernheim...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: An Auto-Roman Policier | 2/27/1976 | See Source »

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