Word: roam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British Commonwealth spokesmen thought that India had worked her passage by helping to frame the prisoner-repatriation formula that led to an armistice. Much more important was Britain's view that, with India seated, the conference could roam at will across the whole range of Asian problems, including the question of U.N. recognition of Red China. The British were prepared to sponsor India on the floor of the full Assembly, where the Indians might pick up enough Asian and African votes to secure them an invitation...
...that always sports the latest and shiniest in automobiles, literary movements and ballpoint pens, where perfectly good buildings are torn down every year to make way for newer and better ones. Only its politics have stopped moving. Politically, New York is a kind of petrified forest, where reform candidates roam in solidly institutionalized groups, and the stumps of once-great political growths clutter the landscape...
Tactical Diversion. In Cleveland, Henry L. Leffingwell, director of the city's animal protective league, got a telephone call from a woman who asked if she could borrow a dog, explaining: "I've got fleas. I thought one of your dogs could roam around the house a couple of days and pick them...
...souls into its dank tenements, often six to ten to a room, scores to a back-well privy. One man in three is a D.P. from Pakistan or the poor uplands, with no money and no place to go. And although the sacred cows roam free down Chowringhee, the native Bengali feels no more free than the refugee: the Marwaris and the British have the best businesses; the quick Madrasis get the best jobs; the workers for the jute mills come mostly from Bihar. Moreover, there is seldom enough money for the dowry, and the daughters stay long at home...
...Nazis' designs on Europe ("This Is the House That Diplomacy Built"); a spoof of the British in 1936 over rumors about the romance between King Edward VIII and Wally Simpson. Some of his most popular cartoons are about "Rat Alley," where local crooks and dishonest politicians roam. Once a judge sentenced him to jail when Fitz blasted him in a Rat Alley cartoon. The Missouri supreme court threw out the case...