Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in Canton, all set for the long train ride through the bright green fields to Hong Kong the next day, and I went out for a last walk. Just walking--through streets, into stores, into parks, with their two-cent admission fees and another two cents to park your bicycle outside--was often one of the most interesting things to do. In Peking there had been Tien An Men Square, where the People's Republic was proclaimed on October 1, 1949--a gorgeous vast expanse of people chatting or walking in the summer evening. In Shanghai there had been...
...there are people like Corcoran who believe we must refocus our concern and energy on domestic affairs. In that context, the remark able Henry Kissinger becomes, oddly enough, a kind of problem. There was just a hint at Vladivostok that he was seducing Gerald Ford to walk the same primrose path of summitry that Nixon trod. ∎ That land of life is delightful with the urbane Kissinger as tour director. He brings those big fat briefing books that lay the whole plan out. It is all very coherent and tidy, a given schedule with largely predictable results that rest...
Nonetheless my friend and I decide to walk the 3.4 miles of glistening asphalt--where the Formula One cars will race at speeds of up to 180 mph--to get a better idea of the difficulties of the race to come. It is cool and quiet on the track as it winds through the hills and gullies, copses and boulders. By the time we are back at our tent it is 4:30 a.m. In the distance, across the track, the bog still smokes...
Between the second and third period, the hockey coach for Boston State accidently started to walk into the women's room at Watson Rink, typifying the day his team had yesterday...
...pots and pans, protesting food shortages and inflation. Passers-by would turn to watch. It was the best entertainment in town, but even the policemen seemed bored by it all. Strikes were a daily happening. The bus drivers would refuse to work or the doctors would threaten to walk out. One day the Catholic Church gathered all its parochial schools together to stage a demonstration in the center of town: thousands of Catholic high school students in their blue uniforms chanting political slogans in pre-pubescent tones behind stone-faced priests robed in black, each looking like a latter...