Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, it is U.M.W. policy that when just one picket from a struck mine appears at another mine, the workers there also must walk off the job. Even some union members have doubts about this tactic. Complains Fred Voithofer, 49, a miner in Greene County, Pa.: "Guys from out of state showed up and shut us down three times last summer. One had a gun. No way I'm going to argue with that kind of thing, but it's dead wrong. The company treats us well, and we shouldn't be penalized when some other company...
...Readers are left with what is probably their first clear insight into why that elusive, fuzzy ball, and the opponent on the other side of the net, behave as they do. Braden's inspiring message to the 99.9% of the population who are not superjocks: "If you can walk to the drinking fountain without falling over, you have the physical ability to play this game pretty well...
Desmond Morris, British zoologist and author of the new book Manwatching, a Field Guide to Human Behavior: "People will walk by an old man sitting on a park bench, but stare intently at a painter's portrait of an old man sitting on a park bench because it has the visual authority of a frame around it. To me, looking at people can be as fascinating as looking at a great work...
However, the most interesting aspect of the excursion, according to Ford, was talking to the cadets and seeing them "walk around with sabres and in full uniform...
Fordham's hit man down the stretch was Bill Lombardi, who made the team as a walk-on last year and was awarded a basketball scholarship. Lombardi scored all of his eight points in the last seven minutes, bagging a bucket off a rebound to pull the Rams within three with 5:36 showing on the clock...