Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walk, eyes-shut, past the "horrors...
...cool early morning in autumn, New York City's Park Avenue is a quiet place to walk. Town-house curtains are drawn against the dawn; broad sidewalks are bare of people. Yawning, hotel doormen crack their white-gloved knuckles in boredom...
Statesman Sadler won in a walk-away with his slogan: "Sadler in the Saddle." He now shares top place on the mighty Railroad Commission with its once all-powerful Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who is no slouch on slogans himself. Col. Thompson is gunning for the Governorship, with a plan to tax oil for old-age pensions ("A Nickel a Barrel for Grandma"). Governor O'Daniel, who said he would pass the biscuits to all the old folks when he was Governor, is still trying to get his hands on the dough...
...cleaned, bathed, and turned her, fed her through a stomach tube. She grew slowly, like a plant in the dark; her rosy face turned white and blank. One day last week, six-year-old Maxine at last awoke. During her long sleep, she had lost her ability to talk, walk, or command her muscles in any way. She recognized no one, instinctively gulped her food like a newborn infant...
...after Britain declared war on Germany he began his column: "There's blood on the paper this morning." That day (as frequently happens) he had nothing at all to say about sports. "They bury a world when they go to war," wrote Bill Cunningham, who knew. "Yeah. Walk softly, and with your hat in your hand...