Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daly's mention of the Times is only the first of several such major errors. For example, in the same first paragraph, he mentions that "the intense pain of marching on blistered feet" during the 300-mile walk to Sacramento "put (Chavez) on his back and almost killed...
...lonely fortyish souls walk their depressions around London. William is a bookstore clerk who has shed most of his past, including a cushy job in advertising, his wife and two daughters...
Salisbury never pretends that his optimism is more than a matter of faith, but his walk through the lower East Side gives the lie even to that. A neighborhood that he remembers as part of Chinatown has become mostly Puerto Rican, and as Salisbury walks along familiar streets his mind begins to play tricks on him. He imagines that he hears the voices of Puerto Rican youths shouting after him. It begins to rain, and Salisbury thinks to himself, "not likely anyone will come after me in the rain." It is then that he reaches Forsyth Street and his island...
...Quad's popularity problem is a switch from the appeal it had in the first years of co-educational housing. For several years after 1971 there were always Harvard students ready to walk the extra distance to the Quad for the attractive sex ratio, four-class housing and other enticements...
Burly Bodyguards. For his part, Vesco says he has torn up his American passport, but he refuses to make the formal declaration before a consul that is required to renounce U.S. citizenship. "Sure they would like me to walk in there," says Vesco. "There are quite a few cases of U.S. officials kidnaping and torturing people in Latin American countries." Vesco's $500,000 home in a San José suburb is surrounded by high walls with TV cameras mounted atop each corner. He rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage...