Word: roam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native army from four to six battalions, and launched a vast resettlement scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant a conspicuous target for snipers. He became, as he intended, a symbol of British determination and doggedness...
Many a U.S. retailer, also short of meat, is ready to dump controls. Black markets are thriving as "independent" packers roam the cattle country, buying above ceiling prices for hotels, nightclubs, etc. Many old-line packers have closed or are about...
Full-fledged towns such as Redwater (pop. 3,600), Leduc (pop. 1,500) and Devon (pop. 2,400) have mushroomed in the countryside. Pipelines crisscross the grainfields; grazing cattle placidly drink out of the safety pools around burning-off oil wells. Oil exploration teams roam tirelessly on the rolling, almost treeless prairie of the south, among the mixed farms and forests of mid-province and through the wilderness of northern woods and lakes. The brisk, winy aroma of prosperity...
...Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...
Each year some 2,000,000 visitors roam the marble vastness of Washington's National Gallery. Its 4½ acres of art treasures cover the history of Western painting from Byzantium to Bellows (George). The visitors always linger over such masterpieces as Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds and Raphael's Alba Madonna, but their favorite is one of the gallery's least-assuming pictures-Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering...