Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Colonel McCormick gave a lecture to the Tokyo Correspondents' Club. Subject: the history of the Hudson's Bay Co. Before leaving Tokyo for home, he took a walk with Emperor Hirohito amid the 700-year-old dwarf trees in his garden. Reported the Colonel, whose occasional sarcasm and constant, majestic deadpan sometimes pass muster for a sense of humor: "The Emperor said he hoped in the future the relations between Japan and the U.S. would be as warm as they have been in the past...
...strict daily regimen is to bathe each morning at 8, in cold water. By that time, he has already been up nearly four hours. He gets up at 4:15, works in his Whitehall Court flat along the Thames Embankment until 6:45. Then he and Isobel walk briskly through St. James's Park. The rest of the day he sticks meticulously to a tight schedule, gives no more than the allotted time (usually 15 minutes) to each interview...
...only more tears of frustration over shortages. If Cripps could dangle before British workers no carrot in the form of more food and consumer goods, what incentives would they have to greater effort? Cripps last month said: "It has never yet been worked out how far a donkey will walk after a carrot permanently held beyond its reach, but there must be a limit to that form of stimulation." Cripps believes in a higher incentive "[We can succeed] only if each one of us puts the interest of our country first and his personal interest a bad second...
...there sweated out the rest of the European war, on the second floor of a pink stucco house at No. 30 Via Toresano. The German headquarters was at No. 35, two houses away. Because the Germans' drill ground was directly across the street, they could not walk near a window. They never talked above a whisper...
...outfit, a jacket with pencil-slim skirt by M-G-M Designer Irene, was so tight that the hobbled model could not walk down the stairs in it. A complicated "Toga for Travel," by Bonnie Cashin, consisted of a black dress under an enormous brown knee-length cape, set off by a matching sun helmet and candy-striped spats. Another cold weather number was a white fleece overcoat, by Elois Jenssen, electrically heated by batteries carried in two side pockets (with an extension cord that could be plugged in on planes or trains...