Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engined Mariner, out on a photographic mission, had crashed and exploded on a 1,000-ft. plateau of snow and ice. The six survivors had food, drink and fuel, a half-burned fuselage for shelter. When at last the rescue plane appeared, they got directions by signal light to walk to the nearest open water, eight miles away. A trail over the ice was blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge, where another...
...Raise your leg, Jim," urged Dr. George Deaver, medical chief of the institute. A thin leg rose unsteadily, fell back. "Do you want to walk, Jim?" Dr. Deaver asked gently. The patient murmured: "I want to get back to work...
...straighten his legs, he can walk," said Dr. Deaver. "One good muscle in his leg is all we need; we can work with that. The average person doesn't use more than 10% of his capacity. There's a great reserve to be tapped...
Down a jungle walk on Bengal's marshy coast last week, two Indian political leaders stalked solemnly away from Mohandas K. Gandhi's in-roofed hut, burned out in recent communal rioting. They were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and President Acharya Kripalani of the All-India Congress Party. Hindu women blew conch shells, and thousands of devotees showered the two leaders with flowers...
After an autumn walk along the Arno in Florence he wrote his Ode to the West Wind; in Pisa The Cloud and To a Skylark...