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A Walk on the Moon

Director: Tony Goldwyn Writer: Pamela Gray Miramax Films; R Release: 3/99 Cast: Diane Lane, Liev Schreiber, Viggo Mortenson, Anna Paquin and Tovah Feldshuh In the eighties…

Brewer's: Walk

(in Hudibras) is Colonel Hewson, so called from Gayton's tract. To walk. This is a remarkable word. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon wealcan (to…

Love Walked In

Director:Juan J. CampanellaWritersJuan J. Campanella, Lynn Geller and Larry GolinDirector of Photography:Daniel ShulmanEditor:Darren KloomokMusic:Wendy BlackstoneProduction Designer:Michael…

Moon Walks

Twelve astronauts have walked on the moon, the last in 1972. Here are the names of those astronauts listed chronologically by the date of their walk. July 20, 1969—Apollo 11Neil Armstrong…

Brewer's: Rope-walk

[barristers' slang]. Old Bailey practice. Thus, “Gone into the rope-walk” means, he has taken up practice in the Old Bailey. (See Ropes.) The ways of London low life are called “ropes” and…

50-kilometer Walk

50-kilometer Walk Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's 50km walking race from 1932 to the present. Year Time Record1932 Thomas Green, GBR 4:50:10 1936 Harold Whitlock,…

20-kilometer Walk

20-kilometer WalkYear Time1992 Chen Yueling, CHN 44:321996Yelena Ninikolayeva, RUS41:492000Wang Liping, CHN1:29.052004 Athanasia Tsoumeleka, GRE1:29:122008 Olga Kaniskina, RUS1:26:312012…

Brewer's: Walk Chalks

An ordeal used on board ship as a test of drunkenness. Two parallel lines being chalked on the deck, the supposed delinquent must walk between them…

Brewer's: Walk the Plank

(To). (See Plank.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Walk through One's PartWalk not in the Public Ways A B C D E F…

Brewer's: Walk Spanish

To make a man walk Spanish is to give him the sack; to give him his discharge. In 1885 one of the retired captains in the Trinity House Establishment…