Word: walked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settled down to run a model farm in Arkansas; David, the scholar of the family, has a Ph.D. in economics and a vice-presidency in the Chase Manhattan Bank. J.D.R. Jr.'s one daughter, Abby, is now Mrs. Jean Mauzé. "We never wanted," the brothers say, "to walk with little steps in the big footprints of those two generations...
Judge Minton had a heart attack in 1945, four years before Harry Truman named him to the highest court. He recovered, but developed pernicious anemia about a year later. "It's hard for me to walk more than a block, and this last term I had to take to a cane," he said. "My knees buckle and I lose my balance. It's pretty depressing. This thing keeps pecking away at me. Worst of all, it's gone to my brain. It affects my power to concentrate and think and retain arguments in my mind...
...Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx will roll along their white skulls in the infernal regions while the animals on the shores howl with...
...edge of a rubber patch near the central Malayan town of Semenyih. They fired. One fell. Next day in Semenyih a handful of Communists who had given up identified the body of Yang Kuo. Said one, gazing down at their old master in murder: "We surrendered, and we still walk and see. Here lies former Comrade Yang Kuo, white-faced, pale and dead." British leaders were jubilant. Yang Kuo was the No. 2 Malayan Communist, second only to Chin Peng himself...
...Scoring the winning run himself after drawing a walk in the ninth inning, Dodger Don Newcombe squeaked by the Cincinnati Redlegs, 6-5, became the first major-league pitcher this season to win 20 games...