Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Class William S. Girard, 21, parried newsmen with newly polished "no comments," posed for pictures with his fiancée, Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, kept in touch with his lawyers on both sides of the Pacific. As one of his ex-buddies put it, Girard was "learning to walk like a hero" in the growing light of worldwide publicity...
...Devonshire, were scheduled to march to church to join the children of the nearby parish in worship. As the mission's curate later told it, "Mr. Fred Knowles [a church warden] came to me at the Vicarage and asked what they were to sing on the long walk. We discussed one thing and then another and I said I would write a processional. 'You must be sharp about it,' said Mr. Knowles, 'for this is Saturday and there will shortly be no printing done.' So I set to work and knocked off the hymn...
...from League President Will Harridge.) The rest of the battlers dusted themselves off and readjusted blood pressures and the Yankees went on to win. 4-3. But they were still four games behind the Sox. wobbling sulkily in a pennant race they were supposed to have won in a walk...
...most liberal court was built (from 1943 to 1946) around Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas, Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge. Chief Justice Fred Vinson edged President Harry Truman's Supreme Court back onto conservative paths. Replacing Vinson (deceased). Earl Warren joined with Old Liberals Black and Douglas to walk hand in hand in the direction of liberalism, and the bloc has been strengthened by Eisenhower-appointed Democrat Brennan. Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan or Felix Frankfurter go along with the solid, four-member liberal bloc often enough to make it a majority. Truman-appointed Republican Harold Burton...
Nobody Tried. After establishing a sudsy rapport with the proprietors, Strickland would head for the action, which, he soon discovered, was usually near the men's room. "I'd just walk on back toward the men's room," he explains, "maybe acting a little unsteady, and then push on into the gambling room...