Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning he was up early, skipped his usual ritual of a morning walk because of chilling rain. His old Army barber, Frank Spina, dropped by to give him a haircut, reported that the presidential locks had scarcely thinned since 1917. Just before noon Harry Truman got the news he had come for. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the Presidential physician, reported that old Mrs. Truman would be sitting up by the end of the month, might even be able to walk again...
...correspondent recently," "we created the country." Britain's main gift has been the fundamentals of orderly government and security. Before World War I no one dared go out Bagdad's South Gate after dark for fear of bandits. Now it is relatively safe. Many Iraqis used to walk about with one hand on their heads, to ward off djinns...
...Confiscate Anything." A short walk beyond, Housewife Yu Chi-ping is sweeping debris from the dark cliffside cave in which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president...
...college station (sample subject: "How to Live on $90 a Month"), run a library in the recreation hall, sponsor dances, publish the Spartan Wives' News. With their Spartan husbands, they operate a cooperative store that has cut food prices 8 to 10%, saves the wives a mile walk to the nearest grocer or butcher...
After picking up one run on a walk, a hit, and an error in the first, the Freshmen put plenty of men on base, but were unable to score again until they picked up another unearned counter in the seventh. The eighth brought the final outburst, as seven Yardlings crossed the plate...