Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coat, I noticed that there were several fingers missing from his left hand. He moved slowly [with] a slight limp. . . . And then I saw that his awkward walk was caused by his not having become accustomed to his artificial left...
From his London hotel window South Africa's Prime Minister can look across Hyde Park's greensward-too sleek and flat for one who loves to walk the rough sandstone of Table Mountain or the undulant, spacious land of the Transvaal. He breakfasts at leisure, on gift eggs from egg-rationed English friends. He listens to the radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed...
...also to realize, as no other screen actress does, that love is made up of kinds of candor, force and delicateness against which, so far, the Hays Office has contrived no adequate nets. There is a breathtaking honeymoon moment, expressed simply in Cinemactress Bergman's sure, elated walk from her bedside to her husband, which for plenitude and beauty has not been approached since Garbo's great days...
...Women on the Porch is a desolate, often poignant, hypersensitive study of life in death. Its theme: that in the world of today the dead are more alive than the living, memories more tangible than reality. Its chief quality: a sustained mood of doom that pervades every walk of life and hangs like a fog over the Tennessee landscape...
Tolf had a no-hitter until the fifth when Chafkin singled to center. The two Army runs were scored in the sixth on a walk, two errors and a hit. Although Army relief pitcher Burger held the Navy batters to four runs in the final innings, the outcome was never in doubt...