Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwittingly dropped his bag of Economic books in the excitement, however, and in the midst of his lunge they landed on his left foot, severely crushing it. The result of his lunge was a headlong plunge onto the walk, where his head struck the brick curbing...
...flitted from hotel to resort for temperamental months. Because Isadora could speak only pidgin Russian and Essenine could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...
...amazed when I told him I wasn't interested; that I was sickened by the killings I had witnessed already. He explained : 'Our prisoners are gagged and when we arrive at the spot we tell them they are to be put on trial. Then we walk around behind them, as if to remove the gags, and shoot them through the back of the head. In this way the face is unrecog-nizable'-as the dumdum bullet passes through the head it mushrooms and as it emerges 'blows off the face from behind...
...Illinois, State law prescribes that pedestrians must walk on the left of a highway, facing traffic. Jimmy Maas was skating on the right. But, ruled Judge Hunter, skates are a wheeled mechanical device and the boy's shoes were not touching the ground. Hence he was a vehicle and had a right to the right-hand side of the road...
Frequent in her responses were spontaneous exclamations. To one question, as to whether she hoped her sisters would follow her footsteps, she answered first that she would like to see them "walk out" in front of her, added with disarming frankness, "What an asinine thing to want to know...