Word: walkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then this voice came out of the woods to our left. Over a bullhorn yet. You boys pick yore stuff up and start walkin down that rode and get outer this town...
...typical town square with the inevitable white courthouse and statute of a Civil War hero was Presley Franklin, the first Negro to integrate the eleventh grade at Marks' white high school. Slim and small for his age, he spoke quietly describing his school year. "They would call me 'walkin' talkin' tootsie-roll,' 'burrhead', and other things like that. They used to throw crayons and chalk at me during class discussion and say 'we're going to kill that nigger'. Miss Martin, one of my teachers, let them throw at me during class. Next year I am going to take...
...pretty girl walkin' down the street...
...Calif., and pushed a button. Two 25-ft.-high sections of the glass wall before him separated slowly, leaving only open air between the preacher and nearly 1,500 worshipers in 500 cars parked below him. Schuller's nondenominational Protestant parish, as its newspaper advertisements state, is a "walkin, drive-in" church-one of more than 70 now operating across the nation...
There could be no complaints about sentimentality in the case of Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. The original lyric is a mildly defensive warning to an errant lover that "one of these days, these boots are going to walk all over you." In Czechoslovakia, it has become the confession of a masochist: "These boots trample on everything beautiful/I live alone thanks to these boots/With these boots I stamp our love/They are taking their own revenge/I am stamping on my own happiness...