Word: walks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Brown made his way with a walnut cane along a Kansas City, Mo., boulevard, carrying the heavy metal folding chair that had helped him through a two-hour wait to cast his ballot. He had a mile and a half still ahead of him. "The only reason I'd walk this far," Brown said, was for Barack Obama. "It's not because of the color of his skin--it's because of the change he will bring to America." Back when King was dreaming a father's dreams for his children, Brown lived in Mississippi. "I rode in buses when...
...more importantly, a violation of... well... any semblance of common sense. After all, what would I do with Billy on those late nights studying in Lamont? What about my propensity to sleep past my alarm clock —how would I have time to walk him in the morning? I mean, Lindsay, c’mon?...
...fifth time, I think I will show up to the event, and then leave just as I walk in the door, leaving only a pile of your printed up e-mails as an explanation...
...members said, seven minutes has become the norm. The committee is considering expanding this time frame to as long as 15 minutes. Members of the faculty and administration noted that the time allotted for commuting was decided upon when most classes convened in Harvard Yard—when a walk from Boylston to Robinson required no more than five minutes. But with classes now meeting as far west as the Quad, as far north as the Northwest Science Buildings, as far south as the River Houses, as far east as 52 Kirkland Street, committee members agreed that seven minutes often...
...shatters the old political ice pack. He let loose a deep blue wave that washed well past the coasts and the college towns, into the South through Virginia and Florida, the Mountain West with Colorado and New Mexico, into the Ohio Valley and the Midwestern battlegrounds: you could almost walk from Maine to Minnesota without getting your feet wet in a red state. After months of mapmaking all the roads to 270, Obama tore right past with ease...