Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, who likes to walk to work from the Wardman Park Hotel, was using a long Government Cadillac last week - and entering his office by a side driveway of Washington's massive Commerce Building. Reason: there was a picket line at the front door. The National Maritime Union, which put it there, was picketing not Henry Wallace and his Commerce Department but their tenants, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land and his War Shipping Administration...
Wags in the Pacific, only a little more enlightened by last week's air command changes, looked at the overall setup, cracked: "Spaatz will fly to Japan, Nimitz will swim and MacArthur will walk...
Eventually Sergeant Hensel will be far from helpless. After operations on all four stumps, he will get artificial limbs and be able to walk again. Last week, still suffering from shock and slightly deaf from concussion, he was thinking of starting a little chicken farm when he is discharged. He told reporters: "This sure changes things a lot . . .I'd make an excellent propaganda photo to end all wars." His dark-haired wife, at the hospital to greet him, said: "We'll get along fine...
...ideal climate, avers Nature, would have a winter mean temperature not below freezing and a summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area including the British Isles, France, northern Spain, Switzerland. Germany, The Netherlands. Denmark, southwest Scandinavia. The U.S. is not even in the running...
...learning to walk, he had to substitute his visual sense for the injured sensory center. Supported by two nurses (he could not hold a crutch), he placed his feet on steps painted on the hospital floor, thus conditioned himself to the right length of stride. Now he walks (depending on his sight, rather than sense of touch) by watching his step out of the corner of his eye. He cannot walk with his eyes closed or in the dark. But in daylight he can walk a mile unaided...