Word: walked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines had come, and with them a naval escort that stretched as far as the eye could see. After ten days of pounding, the warships and carrier planes ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied the colonel: "If you think it's that easy why don't you come on the beach at five o'clock, have supper with me, and pick up a few souvenirs...
...many a U.S. businessman, at that time, the buyers' market looked no farther away than the next customer (one auto dealer even predicted that by autumn customers would be able to "walk in and buy 'em off the floor"). Economists, with the same instinct that causes flying pigeons to wheel in unison, largely and solemnly agreed on the exact date for the interment of inflation. The recession, they said, would come in the spring. As Barron's financial weekly put it: "The 1947 depression, recession, or shakeout, whichever one calls it, has advanced from a fear...
...Nicholas-how nice to see you again!" cried History. "Wherever have you been? And the Tsarina Alix! Your four charming daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
Though free in Tokyo again after 18 years in prison, Matsukichi last week was no longer overflowing with joy. Said he: "When I walk down the streets of Tokyo and see the ashes and rubble of what once were fine houses, I think of how I used to enter them at night, and I feel sorry for the people who used to live there and whom I used...
Meals at Midnight. Kirkpatrick keeps his 30-dog kennel on a lot about two miles from the track. At 7 a.m., his trainer and two assistants take each pooch for a walk. Then the dogs have their toenails pedicured, get combed and rubbed. At 10:30, the dogs are put in kennels and the blinds are pulled down. They nap until 4. A couple of hours before the race, they are taken from their owners and kept under inspection by the Florida Racing Commission. At midnight, after the races, Kirkpatrick's greyhounds get their one meal...