Word: walked
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...primary area of dispute involves the amount of time given to the drivers for safety checks of the buses. Spelt said that the roughly seven minutes allotted drivers twice daily to punch in, walk to the bus, check indicators, reflectors and lights, write a bus report, and start up is not enough. Last year the drivers had 15 minutes for each check, she said...
...just shows how the administration can get its way no matter what," Michael K. Fridkin, chairman of the CHUL student caucus, said, adding, "I felt totally impotent and frustrated--I was ready to walk...
...certainly is. One hundred and fifty miles from the southern border of New Mexico and just over 100 miles from Alamogordo, the site lies between two jagged mountain ranges in a valley named by the conquistadors Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely unpopulated, the perfect testing ground for the plutonium monster that the "longhairs" were concocting at Los Alamos in 1944. That winter Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was pressed to give the site a code name. The erudite scientist glanced down at some lines of John Donne...
DIED. Edwin Way Teale, 81, naturalist, photographer and illustrator whose more than 30 books (The Lost Woods, North with the Spring, A Walk Through the Year) combined a scientist's eye for detail with a poet's love for language; in Norwich, Conn. Teale, who became interested in the out-of-doors during childhood visits to his grandfather's farm in Indiana, put two decades of effort and 100,000 miles of travel into a four-part series on the American seasons, which culminated in 1965 with the Pulitzer-prizewinning Wandering Through Winter. In it he wrote...
...into the direction it ultimately took. She brings to the role her customary intelligence, passion and a humanizing sense of humor. Edna Mae is just as surprised and troubled by her healing gift as her neighbors are; and Burstyn helps the moviegoer share in this discovery. She may not walk on water, but she still performs a miracle of sorts: turning this ambitious, split-level movie into a personal triumph...