Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy retired him. But Wead had an invincible will to get well. For the better part of five years he lay helplessly in bed, driving the life "back into his limbs by sheer force of determination, until at last, with the help of two canes, he was able to walk...
...sister-in-law, mixing resentment for her toiling and skimping with a warmth and tenderness. James Stinson plays her sympathetic husband with suitable low pressured earnestness. Roger Moldovan is more than effective in the lead, without being over-sentimental. Robert Hesse looks properly drunk and idiotic in the walk-on part, and Lee Jefferies is suberbly plastered as an old love of the hero who intrudes at an inconvenient moment...
Through the cold-water flats, walk-up studios, automats and bars where Manhattan's artists live and congregate buzzed disturbing news: the first major defection from the ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting...
...Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across, said more soberly that it was "a very long bridge...
Most of the residents seemed eager to move into Dunster, giving as the chief reason the inconvenience of having to walk to meals. Those preferring to remain in Wigglesworth next year stressed its proximity to classes and Lamont, its uncrowded atmosphere, and the discount which they received on room rent...