Word: roam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volcanic island 22 mi. long and 12 mi. wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened, they vomit...
Assiduous men roam the world, in large groups and small, to uncover forgotten things in old places freshly found. Recent doings of diggers...
...forest, a beast long since missing from urban confines. The how and wherefore of its appearance will always remain hidden in the shrouds of mystery, but as to its disappearance no stately veil shall long hang heavy there. Complacent bovines were once, and perhaps still may be allowed to roam gracefully through the greensward, and unmolested give their milk for Harvard, but birds and even beasts of other colors are ruthlessly driven from the protecting shelter, not, alas, out merely into the humdrum whirl of exhaust-filled urbanity, but straightway to meet the ill-aimed shots of citified big game...
...which the Harvard expedition was able to profit from the terrific fighting of the Great War, for the shell holes and trenches on the Salonika front revealed many archaeological deposits that might otherwise have been long concealed. The expedition also made the discovery that the early Macedonians, the Roam legions, the Trurks, the modern Serbians, and finally the armies of the Great War all used many of the same strategic points, with the result that today ruins of many successive fortifications throughout centuries are often found on a single site...
Huey Long had hundreds of men put temporarily on the State pay roll at $5 a day, to roam the streets of New Orleans roaring for his candidate for Mayor...