Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gregarious Grumman atmosphere workers constantly walk in, to buttonhole Roy or Jake directly, arguing, complaining, or whatever. Says Swirbul: "They don't have to talk to a lot of monkeys along the line." When the office becomes too cluttered with workers, Jake moves into an office next door, where he and Roy also have desks side by side, and 160 model planes dangle from the ceiling...
Surgeon. The most surprising testimony was offered by Surgeon John H. Powers of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y. He described an experiment in which 100 patients undergoing major operations (appendectomies, abdominal surgery, etc.) were allowed to get up and walk the day after the operation. They had only about one-third as many post-operative complications, spent less than two-thirds as much time in the hospital (average: ten days) and took only half as long for convalescence (six weeks) as a comparable group who were kept...
Then, the Shouting. Down the Champs Elysees into the Place de la Concorde went the procession, at the pace of De Gaulle's brisk walk. There he and the dignitaries got into cars and the procession proceeded down Rue de Rivoli at 40 m.p.h. to the Hotel de Ville. There the Committee of Liberation received De Gaulle as head of the Provisional Government. Then the procession crossed the river to lie Saint-Louis and Notre Dame...
...Gaulle continued his slow walk up the aisle toward Cardinal Suhard and Monsignor Beaussart, who never faltered either. A Te Deum was playing from the organ where the machine pistolers were hidden...
...Canterville Ghost (M.G.M.) is a tub of ectoplasm (Charles Laughton) whose cowardice, in a bygone century, caused his brave old father to wall him up in the family castle. The unhappy ghost was doomed to walk the night until some male Canterville should give a good account of himself in battle. But throughout Britain's embattled history, Cantervilles left only a trail of white feathers...