Word: roam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bakersfield dance last week was something special: Bob Wills was celebrating his 30th anniversary as a cowboy fiddler. For the occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...
Some feared that the ronin - unemployed feudal warriors, many of whom turned brigand on the pretext of purifying the nation - would roam Japan again. Demobilization plus unemployment might bring thousands of modern ronin...
...most lucrative trades in Manila today is selling Army goods, obtained by hook or crook, at black-market prices. Eating places sell bread, butter and coffee with condensed milk, pies and other delicacies made of materials that can be obtained only from the Army. Small boys roam the streets everyday, peddling candy, cigarets and whatnot bought from G.I.s needing ready cash...
Belatedly the island empire awoke to its peril. With Buckner on Okinawa, even medium U.S. bombers could soon roam Japanese skies. Communications with China would be endangered. The homeland itself faced invasion. In Japanese, "Okinawa" means "Rope off in the Sea"; in any language, it now spelled doom...
Like the medieval werewolves that still roam through horror fiction, the Nazi Werewolves are partial to human flesh. "Brave as lions and cunning as serpents," they are a secret group of avenging terrorists, pledged to destroy both Allied invaders and German "traitors." Already they have assassinated the Allied-appointed Mayors of Aachen and Meschede (TIME, April 9) and killed three U.S. officers in Frankfurt...