Word: walters
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...formal apology by U.S. Ambassador Walter Mondale has done little to placate the people of Okinawa after the rape of a 12-year-old girl, allegedly by a group of U.S. servicemen, exactly three weeks ago. Today, nearly a thousand people gathered in a park on the Japanese island to demand that American military personnel stationed there leave for good. "The rape has crystallized Okinawans' sense of grievance against the powers in Washington and Tokyo," reports Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. The timing couldn't be worse, since the U.S. and Japan are to sign a five-year agreement Wednesday...
...Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny Garcia, Melvin Klein. The Kleins were the first family in our building to have a television set. Every Tuesday night we crowded into Mel's living room to watch Milton Berle. On Thursdays we watched Amos 'n' Andy. We thought the show was marvelous, the best thing...
...four daughters, she studied art in Germany, lived for a time in Paris, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 returned to New York. Her home on the Upper West Side became one of an overlapping array of salons devoted to modernism; others were run by Walter and Louise Arensberg and the redoubtable Mabel Dodge...
Dramatic it almost is. Having decided that the title character was too big for the stage, Britten and Auden reduced the mythic giant logger to a booming invisible voice, sounding like a cross between Walter Cronkite and Big Brother, that directs the taming of the wilderness. His minions include a creatively frustrated egghead, a hot-tempered muscleman, a pair of winsome young lovers and all manner of ax-swinging loggers and their "wimmin." Inexplicably absent is Babe the Blue...
Professor of Medicine Walter C. Willett led a team of researchers that produced the top two papers on the "What's Hot in Medicine" list. The papers also topped the medicine hot list during the previous two-month period...