Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was nothing to do now but walk home, and Vag did this, whistling. It may have been due to a partiality for Rodgers & Hammerstein, but the tune was "There is Nothing Like a Dame...
...Soviet sector of Berlin there is still much rubble; the 1.5 million East Berliners have a lower standard of living and walk among propaganda posters which repeat monotonously: Down with NATO, Adenauer is a pawn of fascist generals, and the like. The combined British, French, and U.S. half of the city enjoys more wealth and a large degree of municipal self-government. In addition, the Federal Republic has moved many of its offices from Bonn to West Berlin to demonstrate its connection with the city...
With bold stride he advanced toward the first pipe he heard and thrust the ticket into an outstretched hand. He started to walk away but, reflecting that the ticket placed the object of his magnamimity next to him, slowed up and said, "Come on, we'll miss the kickoff," in a gruff masculine voice. Together, Vag and the urchin passed through the turnstile and out onto Soldiers Field...
...fellows in the entry, his friends in Adams and Dunster, and even his friends in Eliot, were certain to drop in and ask him for a walk "just to cheer old Falstaff up." How little Falstaff needed this super-added cheer they could hardly imagine. On the contrary, they distrusted his seeming calm. They thought his satisfied air a cloak veiling deep festering pools of insidious despair. They feared a crack-up were his troubles perpetually suppressed. And possibly they perceived in his calm something more than merely "taking things in stride"--saw the serious threat he posed...
Then he went on to give an extemporaneous homily, recalling how as a little boy with a sore foot he was carried by his father to a religious festival. "Today, riding in the sedia gestatoria, I remembered this. Today, too, I would have been unable to walk, for my knees were weak and my eyes were bewildered and overwhelmed by the events of the last few days . . . It is up to you to draw the conclusion: 'When necessary, have yourself carried by your Father, the Lord...