Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started to cross Massachusetts Avenue, then with an air of bravado, he dodged a taxi. A flake of snow hit, him in the eye. Direct hit, he said to himself, and though his eye watered he smiled expansively at nobody and continued across the Yard. Where was he walking to! Didn't he have to see someone at University Hall, or was it Lehman! Well, lot the big boys wait. He was taking a walk to think things over, to sum things up. The happiest days of his life, and perhaps in a way the least useful, that's what...
Soon our mule is in a sweat. We must spare him, so my Chinese priest companion and myself get down to walk in the mud, which reaches to our ankles and pulls off our shoes...
...friend once observed that he could walk a mile in the time it takes Henry Hill to walk through a hotel lobby. A lanky, easy-spoken fellow of 53, Hill walked and talked his way through a lot of lobbies last year as president of the American Association of School Administrators. His hard-headed administrative outlook: "Let's have glorious ideals for education, but let's use horse sense in achieving them." Typical of his horse sense was the time when, as a school superintendent, he was called by the mayor, who wanted to boost somebody...
Thus did the red-headed Miss Cord, a native of Cambridge, finally find her way to the hearts of the Plympton Street scribes, whose home she has passed "ever since I learned to walk." The tall statuesque entertainer chatted gaily about her career as a singer and burlesque artiste--"stripping is more fun"--and pointed out to her interested auditors her favorite item of clothing a necklace given her by an Australian Army officer, "one thing that I keep on all the time...
...thus you will learn to bear one another's burdens as you walk on the road of life, making the journey together with happiness and hope...