Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the mission could tell how the people of Korea felt about their Russian overlords, but a G.I. who had gone along with Pauley got an inkling. Said he: "I took a short walk one night. Suddenly a Korean jumped out of the shadows and kissed my hand. I felt like a damned fool...
...Boss. Some of the training camp second-guessers thought G.I. Joe's come back pace was too slow after four years in the Army. He had boxed only 113 rounds against 235 for Conn. But he hit the road every morning at 6 a.m. to run and walk six miles (Conn ran only two miles), caught up on sleep by dozing through his rubdowns, drank only bottled mineral water...
...author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless by accident. He never calls on anyone, is seldom seen outside...
...ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ was on earth He made the blind to see, the lame to walk. We, too, believe in ministering to the people's everyday wants in order to fulfill their spiritual needs...
...giants. We see a gracious, skillful, friendly leader sitting surrounded by functional and orderly rocks, and thereby are reminded of countless helping hands stretched out behind the closed doors that always opened at the magic words. We feel once more the surge of unmitigated joy of that twilight walk through a Yard that was familiar, yet had become unfamiliar. We hear a lilting, cheerful voice repeating a color over and over again. We remember all too vividly the soul-searchings and fears of failure as we worked a new machine for you, Inch, with new parts. Then there...