Word: walking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started bitching at the police because theylet people walk away who had done damage toHarvard property," Barrow said. "If that was theiridea of justice then they should arrest me," hesaid he told the officers...
...finds them disturbingly memorable. Harry had reached the U.S. through bizarre circumstances. Barely escaping his native Poland ahead of the Nazis, he finally fetched up in Rome, only to be arrested by Mussolini's police. Soon, he was approached by an Italian man and given instructions on how to walk out of jail, go to Genoa and get on a ship bound for freedom. His adviser mentions the name Billy Rose, which Harry hears as Bellarosa. Only later does he realize that the person who has organized and funded the network that saved his life is a famous, indefatigably vulgar...
...walk in Guangzhou, the professor notices an old woman with a broom made of twigs and straw methodically sweeping dirt from one side of the street to the other. "You see that?" he says. "That's what it is all about. Is the street really clean? Of course not. But she is making it look clean, right? That's the important thing in China. Everything here is appearance. Everything here is pretend...
Having charge of a Miata is like taking a puppy for a walk. People want to pat its stubby little muzzle (which looks as if it is not quite ready for the big world, since it lacks a conventional front bumper). They tell you about sports cars they owned, and when they get to the part where they sold the old XK 120, they look stricken...
...cool water temperatures. Inipol speeds the reproduction of the oil-consuming organisms, and once Exxon began spraying it on with pump-driven wands, beaches showed considerable improvement. "I was impressed with Smith Island," says biologist Jill Parker of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Before, you couldn't walk on it. It looks so much better." Exxon treated some 70 miles of shoreline with Inipol, almost half the area in the sound that was either heavily or moderately oiled...