Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aide, K. C. Adams, worked over his chewing tobacco and spat copiously into a spittoon as Lewis waved a copy of last year's contract. "We have the bond," John thundered. "Do we get the ducats?" This week, a little ahead of time, his miners began to walk...
...this" mediocrity, not the counsels of Mr. Truman's advisers, that is primarily responsible for the plight in which the President now finds himself. Mr. Truman himself sincerely thought that he could walk down the middle of the road, being pleasant to all he met on the way. But how wide is the middle of the road, in an election year? Not wide enough, apparently, for all the factions of the Democratic Party, which seemed to be heading toward the ditch...
Died. Major General Uzal Girard Ent, U.S.A. (ret.), 48, leader of the low-level mass bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in 1943; after long illness; in Denver. Paralyzed from the waist down in a 1944 crash, he set an example for other paraplegics by ultimately learning to walk with braces...
...cities are bombed, said Rear Admiral C. J. Brown, "there will emerge vast numbers of walking people, consisting of women, children and the aged. Thousands of them walking, but a great number, even though they walk, will not live. During the immediately succeeding hours, and the dark days which follow, who will bear the burden of the professional care of the survivors?" He answered his own .question: civilian doctors. The Army doctors will be too busy...
...hour. The University should change its policy and assign extra copies of vital books to the Houses where they will be in constant use, instead of keeping the whole horde at Boylston on the Union, where it is subject mostly to afternoon and evening rushes. Besides, that long invigorating walk through the cool and healthful night air is highly over-rated...