Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned in full force many a man in Company A Saturday afternoon, when Major Bernard A. Merriam set out to disprove what he said as a "rumor that I'm all right on a bicycle but not much on a hike." He took a company out on an extended stroll...
Students still found time to stroll under the chiming Campanile in the shade of the eucalyptus trees. Among the pretty coeds were also many in Nurse's Aide uniforms (with 240, the course is the country's biggest), others who clerk in war industries in nearby towns...
...World War II, Authoress Thirkell seems to say hat while her Marling gentry may be vague and snobbish, they are good people o depend on in a crisis that never really comes. With a few comedy feathers stuck in an old hat, she leads the Marlings' stately stroll through the outskirts of war, leaves them peering absently toward the uknown tomorrow...
...wife he met in a Lexington, Mo. kindergarten-planning the week ahead. Pretty, brown-eyed Mrs. Hoge knows how to live the frontier life. As a general's lady she still does her cooking and washing. When the general is in town they take a short evening stroll on the board sidewalk with their fox terrier-Hoge puffing a favorite pipe. Nettie Hoge has led frontier life before. In the Philippines her husband built the main road on Bataan. But she has waited behind the lines, as when he won the D.S.C. for driving a bridge across the Meuse...
...Sunday of Sept. 3, 1939, when Britain entered another state of war against Germany, Dr. Quo Taichi, Chinese Ambassador to London, took a late afternoon stroll in his garden. He looked up into the dull grey skies. "Soon," said he, "the air is going to be black with pigeons coming home to roost." Last week in Chungking, Dr. Quo, now chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme National Defense Council, looked again into the future. Not all the pigeons of past errors had yet come home. But there had been enough to convince Dr. Quo of one thing...