Word: walked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That career started with years of severe schooling, during which Matisse supported himself by copying old masters in the Louvre. ("One must learn to walk firmly on the ground," he told his own students later, "before one tries the tightrope.") When he married at 23, Matisse was considered a rising young academician. Soon afterward, he ruined his reputation; he willfully destroyed a perfectly adequate still life he had just finished instead of sending it to his dealer. "It did not represent me," explained Matisse. "I count my emancipation from that...
...project found that 20% of the truants were too scared of gangs to walk to school. These gangs of schoolkids, who called themselves the "Noble Dukes," the "Socialists," or the "Majestics," roamed the streets of Harlem, in warfare that was not childish. In two years, three boys had been killed...
Author Clewes sets his scene in an unnamed central European country during the war. A scraggly group of eleven partisans lives quietly in an abandoned village, half an hour's walk from the town where a force of middle-aged German soldiers is stationed. No longer believing in anything except that mere existence is more important than any cause, the demoralized partisans have no intention of fighting any more...
...graduate student who couldn't walk because of a mutilated hip bone is walking now, and with hardly a limp...
...Thorndike and his assistants have had plenty of gratifying moments that make up for the bad ones. There's one Busy School student whose legs were so badly mangled that he couldn't walk two blocks without severe pain. He's now an expert touch football player, but he is more pleased with another accomplishment...