Word: nomad
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...deserted caravan stop, Miller finally finds Ellen tenting up with a nomad chief. Ellen, it seems, is almost congenitally roundheeled, and soon she is making eyes first at Stiglitz and then at Mark. The nomad leader does not hesitate to turn all three out into the desert but kindly sends along his young daughter to keep Mark's bedroll warm. At last this motley caravan reaches safety; Stiglitz is arrested, and Ellen is sent back home to Dorset...
...mirrored image to quicken his timing and reflexes. There was one terrifying moment at 15 when he flunked a prefight physical. "Heart murmur." said the doctor. But nothing came of it. Cassius rested for four months, then started, fighting again. On weekends, he wandered about like a nomad, taking on all comers in amateur tournaments all across...
...boasts a finer hotel than any in Moscow. A state hospital, equipped by Czechoslovakia, is superbly run by a staff of 35 doctors (25 Mongols, five Russians, four Czechs, one Chinese). Sturdy Mongol girls tend up-to-date British machinery in a large textile mill, and the sons of nomad horsemen study physics at the state university. Russia and its European satellites have poured nearly $3 billion into Outer Mongolia. Hungarian technicians operate 300 oil wells in the Gobi desert, and the crude oil is trucked to a Soviet-built refinery at Sain Shanda. At the town of Sukhe Bator...
...A.A.U. championships, Carolyn had to share her glory with another Los Angeles teenager: her best friend, 16-year-old Sharon Finneran, who broke the listed world records in the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 31.2 sec.) and the 400-meter individual medley (5 min. 25.4 sec.). A swimming nomad, Sharon was born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., started swimming competitively in Florida, moved with her schoolteacher mother to Los Angeles last year to work with Carolyn and Coach Daland. The girls live only six blocks apart, and both attend John Marshall High School, where Carolyn is a senior, Sharon a junior...
...Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Lauris Norstad, 55, taking his ease at a small café in tiny Marnes-la-Coquette near his French headquarters for twelve years. The youthful-looking general, who is quitting as of Nov. 1 due partly to a heart condition, has been a military nomad so long that he has no home of his own. He has not decided what to do-after the first rush of fishing and golf-or even where to live...