Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many insist that if you can only find out on what days the stores receive their stock, you can beat the game. At any rate, you will probably be able to use the general counsel offered by one who considers himself a veteran. "When you walk into a store and see a sign in the negative, don't believe it. Be wily, be crafty; never become discouraged." "And," he concludes sagely, "never let them know you're a Harvardman...
...night, the school board at Vanceburg, in Kentucky's Lewis County, ordered Joseph Johnson to send his three children back to school. Johnson, a stern 65-year-old man of the hills, just did not believe the school board understood the situation. His three sons had to walk along a branch and down a holler and did not get home until after dark. He sent his 26-year-old son, Orville, to town on muleback to explain about the wildcat...
...Limon, took the enemy by surprise and forced the crossing of the Leyte River, seizing a bridge on the road. But the Japanese were not panicked. The Imperial 26th Division struck back in a vicious counterattack, U.S. troops halted the attack, but their own push was slowed to a walk...
...long dominated Argentina's politics and social life. He was born and brought up on his father's middle-sized ranch in the cold, windswept south-Argentina's Wild West. His early life reads like a Montana boyhood. He learned to ride almost before he could walk. For recreation he fought with the children of the hired gauchos, hunted wild turkeys on the southern pampas...
Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 56, of Oxford, England, is a melancholy-looking wit who likes to do two things: walk and write. He writes about everything from morals to murders. His latest book, The New Testament in English (Sheed & Ward; $3), a translation from St. Jerome's 4th-Century Latin Vulgate, is for English-speaking Roman Catholics the first fresh translation of the New Testament from the Latin since the standard Douay version was published at Reims...