Word: roam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western India's Forest of Gir where lions roam, lived a band of dacoits (bandits). Their leader was a fierce man, for he had been arrested by the police, and he had vowed vengeance on all patels, the subcaste to which most policemen in that region belonged: he had sworn to cut off the nose of every patel he met. But the leader had barely begun to slice when he was betrayed to the police, who shot him dead...
...which darts from the observation that "the American was always taking a short cut to freedom, a short cut to fortune, a short cut to learning, and a short cut to heaven," to the professorial whimsey of "He [the American] knew that through pleasures and palaces though he might roam, be it ever so humble there was no place like home...
...also to keep the fighting on the far side of the ocean, to help grab advance air bases, and to deliver the U.S.'s fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen. In the new budget the Navy had taken the heaviest slash. After the public quarreling over the 6-36, the Chiefs were anxious to prove that the services could get along; Omar Bradley in particular profoundly regretted...
Courses are no longer rigidly restricted to subject: they can and do roam into many other fields. "Nowadays," says Assistant Superintendent Roy Hinderman, "history teachers teach spelling, biology teachers teach spelling, and spelling teachers teach spelling." But such matters as spelling, or math, or writing, are only the beginning. Taken alone, they are, insists Kenneth Oberholtzer, just "silo education, or storing up facts." Subjects must be related to each other and to life around them. What good is history, the educators ask, unless it is tied in with current events, or with what's going on in Denver...