Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is such a scarcity of Army transport that we walk or take a horse and carriage everywhere. The telephones work but nobody is ever at home, and offices are disorganized. Your correspondents meet, compare notes, write cables, miss appointments, hunt each other and generally go nuts in this city so full of intrigue and excitement, rumors and history...
...like Hamlet's father's ghost, the Fiume issue had come back to walk Italy's night a certain term. It was the same old problem. But this time Istria was claimed by Marshal Tito. The ports of Trieste and Fiume and the big naval base at Pola would give Yugoslavia control of the Adriatic Sea, flanking Italy from Venice almost to Brindisi...
...invitations issued to us was the one coming from Wellesley College. Under the efficient management of Rod Willoughby, transportation via chartered city bus was arranged and a load of fifty-four singing midshipmen rode out. Held at Severance Hall, the canned music and punch bowl vied with the terrace walk in popularity...
...Quarter. In St. Louis, Inez Bock served a customer four soft-boiled eggs when he ordered three, refused to take back the fourth, hurled the whole order at him when he tried to walk...
Said he: "I wouldn't walk through anybody's backyard at night...