Word: path
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down in the river bed, trucks were lumbering through a ford and up a goat path, newly bulldozed, where 25-pounder guns had been hauled up during the morning. Toward 3 in the afternoon, the brigadier announced: 'The spaghetti is cooked and the birds aflying.' He meant that the artillery was ready and the Spitfires were aloft. On the skyline, four miles across the valley, the artillery opened up and the infantry jumped...
...replied: "Please give my best regards to Governor Tuck who is a Republican at heart." Then he renewed his courtship of the state's G.O.P. delegation. Harold Stassen blew into town a few hours later on the same errand; Dewey lit out for North Carolina without crossing his path...
...path of true love was rougher than a Bucharest trolley track. The groom had lost his country, his throne and his fortune to the Communists. The bride was losing the blessing of her church for marrying outside its dispensation, and the bride's parents stayed away. But in Athens last week,wearing borrowed Greek crowns, Orthodox Michael of Rumania and Catholic Anne of Bourbon-Parma were at long length married...
...Compton, Calif., a lanky Negro named Lloyd La Beach (Panama's one-man Olympic hope) burned up the cinder path for 200 meters. His time (20.2) knocked one-tenth of a second off the world mark set by Jesse Owens back in 1935. Next day, long-legged Negro Herb McKenley (Jamaica's one-man Olympic hope) ran a dizzy 440 yards. The time (46 flat) chipped three-tenths of a second off his own world's record set a year...
...eighth day ... I was astonished to be able to recognize a landscape in which a house appeared in the distance and a young woman on a path, with a child and two dogs beside her. From that time on Bonnard no longer referred to his sketch. He would step back to observe the effect of the juxtaposed tones; occasionally he would place a dab of color with his finger, then another next to the first. On about the fifteenth day I asked him how long he thought it would take . . . Bonnard replied: 'I finished it this morning...