Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reprisal. In Tacoma, Wash., Traffic Patrolman U. Drivewell slapped a ticket on Army Sergeant I. Walk...
Proudest of the Army Surgeon General's exhibits is the spinal ward, Ward 108, at Newton D. Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. Of 69 men there, 43 are "walking patients" (they proudly sign themselves W.P.). Most walk with the aid of braces, crutches or canes, but 14 of them, whose spinal cords are only partly severed, walk with no help...
Informality was still the keynote of the new man in the White House-informality and briskness. He had another busy week (69 appointments), but he left the White House each afternoon at 5:30 for his walk across the street to his temporary home in Blair House. (Newsmen stayed late at the White House every night but one, bedding down on the couches and chairs, waiting for a V-E day flash...
Many Britons firmly believe that 1) Americans talk like characters out of Damon Runyon and 2) that it is hazardous to walk the streets of gangster-ridden Chicago...
...other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented their junior partner with a silver salver in recognition of an undeniable increase in dividends "and suggested that he give up his many charities." Even his "dearest Caroline," a devout Calvinist, began to wish ardently that her Robert would walk closer to "the straight and narrow way of God." Prairie Paradise. When, after discouraging years in England, Robert Owen's eye lit on an advertisement in the London Times offering a town for sale, he "saw, beyond the rolling seas, the promise of America, a place where there would...