Word: roam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
...Francisco Chronicle, was such an important figure that he was petitioned to run for mayor, was called on to settle labor disputes, and had a big hand in the city's civic affairs. Vice President Smith, who quit his job as editor four months ago, will roam the company troubleshooting wherever Crowell-Collier needs him, at $40,000-plus a year...
...opera, ballet, folk dancing, and scenes of joyous living on the kolkhoz farm. From several shots of the countryside, laden with produce, the camera takes you inside the Bolshoi Theatre; in Russian, bolshoi means great, but in this instance it might be translated huge. At least a hundred men roam about the stage in Prince Igor and a flock of birds scurries across the dawn at the appropriate moment...
...workmen swarming over the palace on the first big job: laying watertight new lead plate on 27 acres of leaky roofs. During the next two years the interior will reconditioned and repaired, and Versailles will begin to display its old glories to the 700,000 or more visitors who roam its ornate halls every year...
...dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds of big game, more numerous even than the buffalo that fed the North American Indians...