Word: roam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bass, the train robber, had not come to town on July 19, 1878 to hold up the Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass...
...From his publishing earnings Sackett has also picked up control of two money-making radio stations, and now has an option on a TV station in Vancouver, Wash, as well as the San Leandro, Calif, daily News-Observer (5,473). In periods of expansiveness. Sackett has been known to roam the coast picking up options to buy papers as lightly as he tosses off philosophic oratory from William James, Santayana or John Dewey. Six years ago in Seattle, he announced he had bought the ailing Star, hastily pulled out, leaving an option behind when he could not meet the purchase...
Under the leadership of Mike Kopliner, 30 years a proctor, these men roam the campus in plain clothing, wary for intruders and ready to quell student disturbances. They are not policemen, but guardians of the peace--both town and gown. Avoiding violence whenever possible, the proctors have the students' respect, and they value it. They rely heavily on an ability to reason with incipient rioters. As Kopliner says," We talk to the students, kid them along, and keep them moving...
Somehow Dashiel Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for its is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows, there is little romance...
There is a lot of strange political reasoning behind all this, but its roots go back into American history. The area I chose to roam still has its traditions of Populism, the I.W.W.s and assorted brands of native radicalism, aimed for the most part against the moneybags of the East. A managed farm economy, public power, Government control and regulation can raise the hair of an Eastern conservative. Not so on his rural brother of the Midwest and West. That man, if his personal interests so dictate, can vote G.O.P. and be conservative on 99 issues, yet fight stubbornly...