Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compromised half-measures which bind and separate America from its European allies." Among Democrats, Montana's Mike Mansfield wished the report "had spelled out the sacrifices the people will be required to make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning walk that he was "just about as thoroughly bored with Mr. Dulles as the President was." Truman also said that the television report had been "fixed up by BBDO"-which he defined as "bunko, bull, deceit and obfuscation...
...Czechoslovakia and East Germany, he told the hard-lining bosses of those satrapies that they no longer had anything to fear from the Kremlin. "As the saying goes," he told the Czechs, "trust in God and look out for yourself. When you walk among dogs, don't forget to carry a stick. After all, that is what a hound has teeth for, to bite when he feels like...
...attach to the jumping muscles; one is for slow action, one for leaping. The tiny bundles of muscle fibers that are packed like the fibrils of a feather all along the thigh are never fully activated by impulses carried by the slow-action circuit, and so the grasshopper can walk where it pleases...
...fights with their neighbors, fret off as much as 10% of their valuable weight during the journey, cost the industry up to $1 billion a year. Shot full of Jen-Sal's tranquilizer, a steer will put up with almost anything for as long as three days, will walk up the abattoir healthy and hefty...
...fake who floods a dull hole with genuine gaiety. It has, besides, its sinking spells of wit and mild attacks of cuteness. More damagingly, the second act has an air of playing back much of the first, repeating all manner of effects. Fortunately, The Music Man can even walk backward and downhill with considerable élan; there is no denying the bounce of the show...