Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning an aide caught him in the act of taking a brisk, two-mile walk. Between breakfast and midnight that day, Harry Truman traveled 500 miles by train, 141 by automobile and bus, made 15 speeches in 15 different towns, changed his clothes eight times and met 250 politicians, labor leaders and civic dignitaries...
...over his shoulder. drove a motorcycle up the street. He was young, short and fairly handsome except for two scars, one on each side of his face, which looked as if they had been made by a single bullet. Dozens of eyes peering through curtained windows saw the Russian walk unsteadily up the steps and enter Frau Lehrte's house. Soon he walked down the steps and into a nearby orchard, where he leaned wearily against an apple tree: the widow Lehrte was not home, and the Russian intended to wait for her return...
...intellectual race, Tony Arnold thought, Radley would win in a walk. Said he: "At Radley, I used to tell my master that I planned to do an essay on some subject. It wasn't the deadline that mattered, it was the quality. At Kent, we were told to have an essay ready on an assigned subject by Monday morning. Everybody just dashed off something with the least possible effort. Students at Kent are just shoehorned along to graduating." The boys talked about sex "for hours & hours," but were innocent of political ideas...
...that they slide a little when the plane crashes. Also, the plane's nose should be made of material that yields gradually. The Cornell men believe that if all these principles were followed, a pilot could fly a small plane into the ground at 150 m.p.h.-and walk away with a skull somewhat addled but still uncracked...
...Behave, or you'll walk," he warned. "It'll be a long way to walk when there's snow...