Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away from home, but returned because she couldn't lace her boots. At Renishaw, the Sitwell country house in Derbyshire, the child's first friend was a peacock which used to wait for her each morning. "I would go to the garden and we would walk, you might say, arm in arm. When asked why I loved him so, I answered, 'Because he's beautiful, and be cause he wears a crown!' " That idyll ended when father Sitwell bought the peacock a wife. "From that moment the peacock neglected me. It was my first insight...
...last it was time to walk down to "Alum" and start the evening's entertainment. It began with the Scottish Dancers who did four or five authentic dances. We were very surprised to see how gracefully they tiptoed around and bounced back and forth. When they had finished, the leader walked proudly up to the platform and said, "Well, did you like that? (great applause and shouting) Good! Now let's all dance...
Noddy village models. Enid Blyton has also obliged her fans with an autobiography. Its beginning: "If you came to tea with me, you would soon see where I live and what my home is like. You would walk down the country road looking for my house. Before you got there, you would probably say, 'That must be Green Hedges, Enid Blyton's house, because look-there's a black cocker spaniel sitting at the front gate.' You would be right." Parp! Parp! Last week, at the Stoll Theater, Noddy and his friends went through a typical...
...quite a bigger proposition than an ordinary bum, however. You can't just walk up to a loitering bus and tell it to move along, bud. You have to have a decree, which often means a great deal more work for the city clerks, and everyone knows they have all they can do. Besides, they and their friends vote...
...TIME, Sept. 13). So the doctors decided to continue doing all that they could to cut down the acidity of the Pope's stomach, and increase his feedings to build up his strength. By week's end they had him out of bed for a ten-minute walk in the garden, on the chance that exercise would make the protruding piece of stomach snap back through the diaphragm and into place. Unscientific as it sounds, many doctors agree that it would be the best treatment for the Pope, since it would not drain his feeble strength...