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Word: walking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, the Bruins seem to have a quarterback who can walk on water, but only in emergencies. Bob Bateman is the name of this supposedly terrific player, fresh from a record-setting performance two years ago in Vermont--just before the school dropped its football program. To paraphrase everybody else who has written on the issue, he is the key to Brown's possible success this year...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 9/27/1975 | See Source »

...mean, about getting an erection? You see, this is the thing I'm trying to get away from--that fig leaf mentality. I'm trying to get people in touch with their bodies and sexuality. It's amazing now to think that thousands of years ago men were walking around with no clothes on, and thought nothing of it. Now men walk around with clothes on and think nothing of it. What a shock it must have been then, to see the first person wear clothes! And what a shock now, to see a person without clothes. Or with these...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...present, Charlestown protests do not seem to have much political awareness about them. In fact the most visible protests have been a series of Mother's Marches, in which women and girls often with babies in strollers, walk two by two chanting repeatedly the Lord's Prayer and Hail Marys. They march to neighborhood churches to pray and sing hymns, sometimes kneeling down to statues of patron saints to pray for intercession to stop forced busing. The unvoiced desire to keep blacks out of their schools and community is obviously there, producing prayers that are suspect in their motivation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phase II: Standoff on Bunker Hill | 9/24/1975 | See Source »

...chooses to walk that slender line that separates him from insanity, because on the other side is dishonesty, which, for Dylan "surely would be death...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Dylan's Best Cellar | 9/23/1975 | See Source »

...there no hope? Having taken the reader from the cradle, Donleavy looks forward in a mini-essay on "Dying" to what comes after the grave. Alas, more of the same. As he imagines a rude, rude walk through "about twenty millenniums," Donleavy suggests: "This could be, for those of you who were expecting an afterlife of courtesy, equality and contentment, a good time to break down and cry." Or bare your teeth, throw back your head and laugh like the old Ginger Man. Melvin Maddocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Do Unto Others | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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