Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn-of-the-century Methodist church in London's East End, but it has excellent acoustics and is sometimes used for recording sessions. Concertmaster Sidney Sax gave the signal for the orchestra to tune up. Then, from a double door, the frail, stooped figure began a slow walk to the podium, his right hand gripping a sturdy cane, his left on the shoulder of an associate. Carefully, the old man settled into his tall chair. At age 94, Conductor Leopold Stokowski was ready last week to cut another record...
...clear in the end that Schweiker had not delivered a single extra delegate from his home state. It was a deflating performance, and Reagan noted the moment. "That's the one that did a it," he said. Muttered Schweiker defensively: "A lot of people took a walk...
...knows how to pace his material for maximum interest - when to summarize, when to show a scene in full. The dialogue is artful enough to sound natural. In his descriptive prose every word works quietly to inspire the illusion that things are happening by themselves. Even Emily's walk-on lovers are able to stand - as characters - on their own two legs...
...When the students read Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Parker and Welter wear twin T shirts, hers labeled ZENOBIA (the romantic feminist who kills herself), and his COVERDALE (the narrator). Nothing sneaky about their relationship. Hell, the whole school knows about it. All they have to do is walk past the Parkers' kitchen window to see Gail, Tom and Rush breakfasting together (exit your G rating). Tom, according to one trustee, is "mature" about...
...getting out of jail in 1971, Roselli again supervised the Chicago Mob's gambling interests in Las Vegas, while living quietly with his sister, Mrs. Joseph Daigle, in Plantation, Fla., just west of Fort Lauderdale. He was, his neighbors said, a nice, silver-haired gentleman who liked to walk his poodle and talk about such local worries as the caterpillars. Although he had arthritis of the spine, he played golf regularly. After another local underworld character was killed recently on the links, Roselli took the precaution of never playing the same course twice in a row. Still, he rejected...