Word: walks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things are more likely to make the U.S. citizen walk a mile with a smile than a chance to get a look at a real, live Russian: he gawks at them with the same delighted curiosity his grandfather turned on for Barnum & Bailey's wild man from Borneo...
...wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that, "I walk all around and show where is Jap guns, there, and there and every...
...chief weaknesses of the library is the honor system. It is common knowledge that some girls, realizing that they will not be checked at the door, walk off with books and return them at their leisure. In many cases where the number of available books is limited, a small number of girls can prevent a large number from studying. This, in turn, leads many upholders of the system to cheat on it merely to keep themselves from being cheated...
...their previous games the Yardlings easily put Andover, Newton High, and Melrose High out of the way. Wellesley tied them after they had met them unexpectedly. Arlington wasn't a walk away, and Brown presented a real problem...
Dondero's don'ts: don't smoke behind the rails or chew on unlighted pipes or cigars; don't park feet on the top or back of chairs; don't walk in front of a member who is speaking; don't read newspapers on the floor during a session; don't call colleagues by their given names-Jim or John ("we all know better-it's the gentleman or gentlewoman...