Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgium's colonial administrators walk a tightrope over the twin volcanoes of white repression and black extremism. They have given fewer civil rights to their Africans than either the British in Nigeria (due for Dominion status in 1960) to the northwest or the French in Equatorial Africa across the Congo River. They have never had the racial clashes or race hate that flame in apartheid-cursed South Africa or in British-ruled Kenya. In fact, the only rioting in recent years occurred last summer after a badly refereed soccer game between white and black teams in Leopoldville...
...John Cotton's Spiritual Milk, the message was to be good or face damnation. One hundred years later, it was still menacing enough (in one story, when a little girl went out on a forbidden walk, she was promptly kicked by a horse and crippled for life). Today the moralizing is less obvious, but it is still there...
Supposedly, people improve a great deal with the coming of the Christmas spirit. All this proves is that people are pretty poor news the rest of the time. And a walk down the block to the shopping area where people thresh about buying tokens of good cheer shows that they're not very wonderful during this time of year either...
...tried again to get through in a neighbor's pickup, failed again, but managed to telephone his "get-out" order to the clinic. Helped by deputy sheriffs with boats, the nurses got the patients to the safety of the solidly built parish courthouse. Dr. Clark tried to walk back home, but waist-deep water forced him to shelter in a concrete-block house. Ten hours passed before the water subsided enough for a messenger to get through with the word: Dr. Clark was needed at the courthouse, which was packed with hundreds of survivors, many injured...
Those who avoided arguing with him found other cause for offense. His over-effusive greetings from half-way across the Yard were generally considered in poor taste. And the Rev. Sherrard Billings, another classmate, observed: "When it was not considered good form to move at more than a walk, Roosevelt was always running...