Word: walked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when he reported : "When I'm sick my daddy has to walk around at night for me and he says 'Goddam...
Doubles by John Caulfield and Cliff Crosby got Godin a run in the first but BU struck back with two in the second on a single followed by a walk, a sacrifice, and another single. Harvard tied the score in the sixth when Crosby walked, stole second, and tallied on Coulson's single; the Crimson took the lead again in the seventh on Godin's double, Dunn's sacrifice, and Caulfield's fly to left...
...months after he broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash, Golfer Ben Hogan was driven to the El Paso railroad station, and wheeled to the train. He managed to walk the length of a Pullman car by himself and settled down for the 16-hour trip back home to Fort Worth...
...Beat It." At 23, John got into trouble with the police for stealing a typewriter and a movie projector. At an "honor farm" of Ohio State Reformatory, it was the same old story. Other prisoners avoided him: "I would walk up and watch them when they were playing cards. They let me stand there for awhile and then look up as if they were telling me to beat it." He ran away from the farm, was caught stealing again and sent back to the reformatory...
...often ask that question during the next half dozen years. Gentleman Jimmy was forever darting away from his post in the peak-of-prosperity days-to Florida or Europe or simply to the fights. New York didn't seem to mind. Jimmy was the cock o' the walk, a witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party...