Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness. Next day Walter Reed surgeons removed a malignant lesion from the lower intestine. Last February, after a sharp attack of diverticulitis, he flew to London, Paris, Bonn to consult with the West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely eat. "If it isn't cancer," he told a friend before leaving, "then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...
...students is bright, talented, spirited-and blind. Ike handed them $500 checks signed by Manhattan's Recording for the Blind Inc., which supplies the blind scholars (and 750 others in some 300 colleges) with free textbooks on 16½-r.p.m. records, made by 1,200 volunteers in every walk of life. The four prizewinners...
...senatorial look into his budget last week, Mattei was still cock of the walk, but minus a few tail feathers. Critics have often suggested a concealed ownership of the heavily subsidized Milan daily // Giorno (circ. 150,000), which has consistently backed Mattei's causes and opposed his detractors, followed a left-of-center line, and often been hostile to actions of Premier Antonio Segni's regime. The government consistently denied that taxpayers' money was backing // Giorno, Last week Mario Ferrari-Aggradi, head of the government ministry that controls state properties, stunned Senators by candidly acknowledging that...
...tried to sidestep, she sidestepped too, that way and the other way. [Laughter..] It sounds amusing, my lords, but it is not so amusing-really. I got bored with it. I took hold of her arms and put her on one side and tried to walk on. Whereupon she attacked me with her brolly and tried to knock...
Kids Are Kinder. There was time out for a long hospital siege, to straighten out the contractures in Anne's one knee. She went home able to walk, but only with a device so clumsy that she soon discarded it. When she was in high school, her left leg was amputated below the knee. Then, with artificial legs and crutches, Anne could really walk. But as she advanced to college (St. Paul's Luther Junior College and the University of Minnesota), Anne found it harder to win acceptance than it had been among young children, and harder still...