Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freedom, a graceful woman guarded by the bronze statue of a Russian soldier. Slowly the crowd, pulling on lines attached to the soldier, rocked the statue back and forth, until he tipped forward on his face. There had been no looting in the city thus far, but to walk abroad at night was to hazard being shot at (see PRESS) or stopped by some tough young rebel and made to show identity papers...
...filing his own byline stories from the Hungarian capital. The U.P.'s Anthony J. Cavendish scored a feat by covering the Polish rebellion in Warsaw, then flying into Hungary with a Polish plane carrying plasma. He landed 33 miles south of Budapest, hitchhiked to the suburbs, had to walk the last five miles. He sent out a fast-moving 2,000-word eyewitnesser...
...campus that greeted the band was green and silent, compared to leafy retreat of Cambridge. Even the Ivy was strugling against the cold and the silence was broken by the clatter of a beer can as it rolled down the flagstone walk-ways...
...from the double-truck color spreads in Better Homes and Gardens. The pastures are sometimes dyed a fluorescent green that would surely blind a cow. The fences organize the landscape as artfully as if it were a Fifth Avenue window. And that dear little Bucks County farmhouse with the walk-in fireplace and the lovely Shaker furniture is the one that every Sunday driver has been looking for all his life...
...walk and talk with great men was as much an everyday thing to Lamb as rubbing shoulders with the demons of insanity. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge had written "what he calls a vision, Kubla Khan," it was to Lamb that he read this great poem aloud-"so enchantingly that it brings heaven into my parlor while he sings or says it." William Hazlitt, angriest of English essayists ("He avows that not only does he not pity sick people, but he hates them"), was another devoted friend. Percy Bysshe Shelley makes a brief appearance ("His voice was the most obnoxious squeak...