Word: nomadic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather team headed by hard-boiled Chief Petty Officer Richard Widmark. When Japanese planes bomb out the weather station, Widmark and his men set out for the sea on an 800-mile trek across the desert. On the way, they encounter vicious Japanese, treacherous Chinese camel traders, and lariatswinging nomad tribesmen on Mongol ponies...
...Historian Prawdin describes him, Genghis Khan was a ruthless but not sadistic man-a tough old nomad who did not hesitate to destroy his enemies, yet who had no interest in pointless cruelties. Conquest was in his blood; he was never happy except on the march. "The greatest joy a man can know," he said, "is to conquer his enemies and drive them before...
...From the point of view of the European, an American is nomad in relation to place, disattached in relation to time, lonely in relation to society, and insubmissive to circumstance, destiny, or God. It is difficult to be an American, because there is as yet no code, grammar, decalogue by which to orient oneself. Americans are still engaged in inventing what it is to be an American...
...each other's heads off, which are deplorable occurrences that should be stopped. But even so, it strikes me as perhaps a little better than the more evil practices that prevail in cities." For himself, said the Prime Minister, he "would prefer any day to be a nomad in the hills than be a member of the stock exchange and sit there and listen to those frightfully ugly noises...
...nomad pygmies of South-West Africa, who are fleet as deer, roam unchecked over the vast deserts bordering on Bechuanaland. They are not above hunting down domesticated cattle and playing tag with avenging white policemen. Game Warden Dr. P. J. Schoeman has long thought the energetic Bushmen ought to have their own private reserve. But first he needed to win his wards some popular support...