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Word: walkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its recent vogue, ballet cannot yet walk on its own pirouetting feet; it is still borne up by hopeful angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet in the Black | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Charlie took his wife for a walk to cool off. Imogene, fondling an automatic pistol which her husband had given her, fired a few practice shots into her fireplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Incident in New Canaan | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...local gossip about Edda's high living, told the press: "Rumors that she escaped one night after her father's death and returned to the clinic intoxicated are absolutely untrue. Nevertheless, Madame Ciano occasionally does behave in a rather bizarre way. For instance, she likes to walk around barefoot like a gipsy and occasionally at night she will jump from her window into the garden for a stroll in the park and forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Ciano Story | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...plaster cast from trunk to toes, received the Purple Heart. A Manhattan surgeon had removed the bullet from his thigh, sawed through the crookedly knit bone and patched it with a six-inch stainless steel plate and eight screws. Now both legs are the same length. Soon Weissblatt will walk again without crutches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Weissblatt's Leg | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...Laboratory before Pearl Harbor. Since then he has been a special assistant and troubleshooter for the Secretary of the Navy, specializing in operating seized, strikebound plants. At 61 he is still one of the youngest, most energetic men in the Navy. Each evening he and his equally energetic wife walk a "fourmile loop in Washington's streets. The Admiral, whose enthusiasms are never halfhearted, has two granddaughters for whom he flatly claims the title of "best-looking women in the country in their class-aged four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Navy Looks Ahead | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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