Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared a tired, ascetic, unshaven old man in a worn black cassock. This was Padre Antonio. In a commanding voice, he announced that he would first bless the sick. Then he singled out some of the most pitiful in the sweating, excited yet strangely quiet crowd. "Stand up and walk," he said, pointing to a cripple. Others tried to catch his eye. "No, not you. Get away. You there, stand up and walk." Some of the apparently crippled stood up and walked before the silent crowd...
Lefthanded doorknobs, special tables in the dining halls, driving law changes which will permit portsiders to operate on the left side of the street and walk on the left hand edge of the sidewalk, typewriters which will print from right to left, and reserved sections in the lecture halls of the University are the main facets of the demand...
History of another kind was also written in blood on the night of November 12, 1840. In one of the quaint alcoholic college traditions known as the "Calathump," students customarily gave vent to their opinions of instructors whose "walk and conversation" were unpalatable. One Professor J. A. G. Davis, chairman of the faculty and apparently rather unloved, was instantly shot by a marauding masked student whom he sought to identify. The "calathump" institution along with the "dyke," a lynch-party directed at students overly "addicted to calico" or Southern Womanhood, fell into gradual disuse in 1856. Ancestral example, however...
Holworthy jam sessions are bad enough of themselves, despaired Winston McClellan '51, but the bagpipes of Leigh Cross '51 across the walk in Thayer Hall are like a cat on the fence that a slipper won't silence...
...give up certain cities when necessary, we would be stuck and on the defensive everywhere. If we threw away these burdens when we should, and let Chiang Kai-shek take them up one by one, his burdens will grow until finally he will be unable to walk...