Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereafter the police were reluctant to jail the holy men. Instead they piled demonstrators into a van (although many holy men had vowed always to walk and never to ride on wheels), drove them 20 or 30 miles out into the country. Some wondered if even a Jinnah would show the single-minded stubbornness of the sadhus; many of them plodded back to Delhi through the blistering heat (113°), chanting "Good understanding among all living beings...
...citizens of Peggy's Cove eat heartily, walk slowly, live long. They do their best to keep the oldtime atmosphere for their summer visitors, from whom they take up to $10,000 every year. But modernism is creeping in. The Nova Scotia government is going to straighten and pave Peggy's Cove Road. Says one of the younger residents, 53-year-old George Swinimer: "I'll be glad to see the pavement. The artists like Peggy's the way it is more than I do. I would like to see even a jukebox...
James F. O'Nell, of 97 Walk Hill St., Jamaica Plain, a graduate of Roxbury Latin School...
...When the elevator door opens, you think you have arrived at a sports arena while the wrestling matches are under way. A distant roar of voices goes up and down. The roar grows stronger as you walk to the entrance of the huge six-story-high trading floor...
...Tall, balding Gus Hennig, chief guard for the past 37 years, smiles and says: 'It's wicked out there today.' As you walk on to the floor a messenger in full sprint about knocks you down. The great paneled room resembles a large railroad station at 5 p.m. when commuters are racing for trains. High above the trading floor are the big blackboards carrying quotations for wheat, corn and other commodities...