Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure, there always were a few who complained of irony in the word "jolly," but the wise knew this to be in jest. There were others who publicly scorned the walk over autumn leaves or mid-winter slush to the stuffy, overcrowded dance floors, but the floors never ceased to be packed. Some criticized the innocuous punch, the bad music, and the atmosphere, but everyone knew these scoffers were only the frustrated, the timid, the jealous and the lazy. All the world liked jolly-ups, and all the world was jolly. No one feared, for the jolly...
...Adlai Stevenson was not interested in another try for the presidency-as he still insisted-he managed last week to look more, talk more and walk more like a candidate than those on the active lists...
...there when they took [King] into the stables (where they previously beat two Turks) and I could hear him screaming . . . When he came out his feet were so swollen that he couldn't get [them] in his shoes and could just about walk. His handkerchief was bloody and he was crying . . . McCuistion was beaten in the morning. I saw him about six . . . They then separated us and I didn't see him any more until 1100 hours. His shirt was torn, no glasses on, blood and scratches on his face and red bruises all over his body...
...Pressagent Ted Bonnet were at the airport to meet his plane. One by one, the passengers filed down the ramp-but no Demara. The stewardess said that Ferdinand had indeed been on the New York-Hollywood flight, but he seemed to have disappeared. Just as Producer Bloch turned to walk away, a bulky man dressed like a pilot tapped him on the shoulder: "You looking for a guy named Demara?" "Yes," replied Bloch, "we sure are. Was he on your plane?" Off came the braid-encrusted cap. "Well, here I am," said the imposing (6 ft., 270 Ibs.), self-assured...
...years between, as she tells it in Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (Prentice-Hall; $3.95), Mae had perfected her inimitable style: the silken walk that suggests the meshing of superbly machined parts, the languid glance, the., lethargic but meaningful gestures, and the tantalizing drawl employed with devastating effect in sybaritic phrases such as "Beulah, peel me a grape," or "Come up 'n' see me sometime...