Word: walks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold generally gets up before 8, takes a short walk around the estate, or a quick dip in the lake. Then he reads his mail, confers with his secretaries. His meals are moderate; he takes little meat, likes vegetables and fruit, drinks mineral water or fruit juices...
...barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. "O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!" shouted the photographers. "Stand over there . . . now look this way-this way . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer, wave will-ya-with the hand, see? ... O.K., let's make him walk down the deck . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer...
Century of Progress. In Alamogordo, N. Mex., after a 67-mile walk from his desert home, 115-year-old David Romero gave his secret of healthy longevity: "I never got married...
Room 1O2L, a short walk down an immaculate corridor, is one of the most cheerful-seeming places in the hospital. Divided by stiff brown curtains into examination booths, it rings on Friday mornings with the voices of children. A little boy with a Tommy gun shoots sparks at a white-coated doctor, and a plump little girl cradles her doll. In a corner, a nurse in a starched white uniform peers through a microscope and makes a click-click sound with a small, sharp-voiced machine. She is counting in some child's blood the deadly white cells...
...trouble recognizing each other" chertled one sign precariously carried by two 1939 men who looked as if they wouldn't know their own fathers if they happened to walk into them. Other groups, apparently less confident of their memories, covered themselves with mustaches, hats, cloaks and grease paint so they wouldn't have to say hello in anybody in particular...