Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they walk around...
...Manhattan's elegant East Side toward the urban sinkhole of the South Bronx. With police helicopters hovering overhead, the presidential motorcade drove by block after block of devastated buildings, many of them burned to charred shells by arsonists. The President got out of his car twice to walk through the rubble with HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and New York's lame-duck mayor, Abraham Beame. "Let me walk about a block," he told his Secret Service agents at one point, and then he proceeded, in good campaign style, to shake hands with slumdwellers who crowded doorsteps and street...
...discouraged and despondent." reported Bishop Robert Rusack of Los Angeles. A caucus of women activists in New York and New Jersey, including the wife of Newark's assistant bishop, sent a telegram urging the acceptance of Allin's resignation offer. Perhaps mindful that opponents are ready to walk out and women are not, the bishops took a tolerant view of the dissidents. They passed a freedom-of-conscience clause specifying that no one should be "coerced or penalized in any manner" for refusing to recognize women priests. In a separate statement, they gave the same freedom to Allin...
...drill is to walk to the bomb alone, describing what can be seen. Major Thomas, weary and middleaged, too old for the game, takes shelter behind a pillar in Westminster Abbey as his friend Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...
SLEEPY SOUTHERN TOWNS breed insanity. The stagnant air and oppressive mugginess drive their inhabitants crazy. Eccentricities grow into neuroses and simpletons live their empty lives in third floor attics or jilted spinsters spend decades frightening little children who walk on their lawns. In the Harvard Premiere Society's Complex, undergraduate Forrest M. Stone improvises on this theme, turning a modern apartment complex in Alabama into a way-station for a variety of misfits and lunatics...