Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation. Our dedication to moral values must be complete in our dealings abroad and in our relationships among ourselves. We have single-minded devotion to the common good of America. Never must we forget that this means the wellbeing, the prosperity, the security of all Americans in every walk of life...
...unite these elements Ben-Gurion called for "tremendous educational effort, superhuman patience and boundless love." Within a day's walk of Tel Aviv's neon lights are villages where babies are still painted to ward off the evil eye. Said one social worker: "The 20th century is living next to the 10th." In a village near Beersheba, a group of five young Israelis who answered Ben-Gurion's call to live with the newcomers found a group of Jews from Cochin China-dark-skinned, resigned, pious and poor-who seemed to share nothing with the new state...
...past eight years, he has lived at Antibes, France, a lean, soldierly man who rises promptly at 6 a.m. for a two-hour walk before breakfast and surprises the Riviera crowd by never setting foot in the local bistros. For the past three years, Kazantzakis has been a front-running candidate for the Nobel Prize. Like Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, a past Nobel winner, and Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, he is far from the operatic Mediterranean type; with them, he shares a dry, winy brilliance of mind. Under the harsh sun of Crete, neither brooding Teutonic mysticisms nor romantic...
After about 30 minutes of striding and strolling, 102 days after the heart attack that cast certainties into doubt the world over, the President turned to Dr. Howard Snyder, the man who had first tended him in Denver. "Can I walk some more?" the President hopefully wanted to know. "Sure," the doctor replied...
...Temples crash. A wall of water whirls the hero away. Fissures swallow tons of peasants, and the earth munches on them the way a cow chews oats. Lana, meanwhile, is hammering picturesquely on death's door as she battles a tropical fever, and as soon as she can walk she staggers, understandably enough, toward the nearest exit. She is apt to find it crowded...