Word: walked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still professed hopes of a freer trading world, based on the agreement which 18 nations had reached last week at Geneva. But nobody in Washington had a clear answer to this question: How was the world going to move toward freer trade until a businessman could once again walk into a bank and exchange one currency for another at a rate fixed by the operation of free markets...
...priest and not the municipality giving them the money." Meanwhile, Father Bernardoni knelt before the Virgin Mary with a group of demure, dark-eyed members of the Catholic Girls' Association, and prayed loudly: "Helper of Virgins, please help Miss Bianca, Miss Filomena, Miss Agata, who walk the streets for your sake in the company of sinners...
...Patty Conklin's "Mile of Merriment" Midway, they saw Terrell Jacobs' circus and Joe LaFlamme and his trained moose, won gewgaws at ring games, rode the ferris wheel, played bingo. When they were too frazzled and footsore to walk another step, they plunked down $3 for a seat at the Olsen & Johnson show, or ate at one of the 16 restaurants and 75 "grab joints" on the exhibition grounds...
This week, Big Jake will walk confidently into the big, horseshoe stadium at Forest Hills to give Australia's Davis Cuppers another lesson. In his unemphatic way, he calls his style of play the "big game." It combines all the game's attacking strokes into a smooth offense, geared to his none-too-rugged...
That fixed 16-year-old Jake; Vines became his hero and tennis ideal. Even now, Kramer's forehand is hit with the same bent elbow Vines used; he rolls into his serves the way Vines once did. "I even tried to walk like him," Kramer says (he only half succeeded; Vines walks like an arrested Tarkington adolescent...