Word: strolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's few surviving elder statesmen, found himself in Gloggnitz, a small town 40 miles from Vienna. The Red Army entered the town, and all Easter Sunday and Monday, Dr. Renner waited for something interesting to happen. Nothing did. Bored, Renner set out on Tuesday for a stroll along Gloggnitz' Main Street. Relates Renner with massive calm: "After a while, I came upon two men, one of whom knew a little Russian. He guided me to local Russian headquarters. Here I had an opportunity to explain some of the ideas that I had formulated to protect our people...
Financially speaking, it may soon be a simple matter to get a doctor in England. John Bull & family will stroll down to the "health center" in High Street, consult their own doctor, or dentist perhaps, among several practicing under one roof, pick up their neatly labeled prescriptions-and walk out without paying a single tuppence...
Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with a requiem mass at the Church of the Advent in Boston. Professor Rand died quietly, book in hand, shortly after he stepped into his library after a stroll in his garden...
Even less faithful readers, whose wrinkles have kept pace, year by year, with those of Author Remains' characters, are likely to regard the closing volumes of the opus with the kind of intimate regret they feel for their own receding hairlines. But late-arrival readers who stroll in on the latest 559 pages will find that, though they may miss the average novel's cosy intimacy, they can easily learn to enjoy a cast of characters whose past is already in the public library...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...