Word: walters
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Other Cantabrigians who supported the memorial included City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and mayor emeritus Walter Sullivan. Reeves stressed at the hearings the importance of the United States' openness to immigration and the injustice of starvation in a world with plenty of food which the memorial represents...
...flanked by her modern counterparts, the guided missile destroyer USS Ramage and guided missile frigate USS Halyburton. An estimated 100,000 people turned out on land and sea for the ceremonial turn, made possible by a three-and-a-half-year, $12 million renovation project. On board, veteran sailor Walter Cronkite, a beloved symbol himself, was allowed briefly to take the helm. Then, seemingly as soon as it had begun, the tow ropes were retied, and Old Ironsides, undefeated in 30 engagements and long the flagship of U.S. naval supremacy, was gently led back to retirement in Marblehead...
...straight up and hover. One of those planes they aren't allowed to talk about. Their pilots crash into mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers it up. It's all hush-hush." A hundred miles east in ("The Loneliest Town on the Loneliest Road in America"), Walter Cuchine heard news of the loud booms and set out a coffee can to collect donations for an antiaircraft gun. "Last year one concussion knocked a Senator off his podium here, but whenever you call the commanders to complain, they say, 'Did you get a tail number?' Of course...
...were inclined to put yet another spin on the following cliche, that we have met the aliens and they are us. In fact, to judge from the way they are most often depicted, aliens have sprung from the same corner of the national psyche that has a thing for Walter Keane's paintings of grotesquely doe-eyed children. Unless, of course, aliens actually look like that...
...drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what we do, just drinkin' and drinkin' and cryin' and drinkin'..." The book's epigraph, from Sir Walter Scott, has it right: "It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives...