Word: roam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people into numb submission. Life expectancy is 32.6 years. Per-capita income is $70 a year. Population density is the highest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy runs 90%. "Haitians," Duvalier says quietly, "have a destiny to suffer." Duvalier's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute (Creole for bogeymen) roam the country, soaking up blood money from businessmen, torturing and murdering suspected anti-Duvalieristes-sometimes even slaughtering whole families. Early this year, one mutilated corpse lay a whole day in the Port-au-Prince sun, as a grim lesson to Haitians...
There is, however, a notable difference. In '29, the massive daily trades were due to panic trading. This time it is confidence trading. Armed with more cash than ever, big and little traders roam the market for cheap stocks that are likely to rise rapidly; then they sell, take their profits, and start searching about again. The result is one of the most speculative markets that Wall Street has ever known...
Many colleges are easing grading pressures so that, as Brown University's Dean Robert O. Schulze puts it, students "can roam more freely over the academic landscape." As enrollment pressures increase at graduate schools, grade averages often become crucial to entry, and a bright physics student, for example, might shy away from a course in literary criticism that he would love to explore out of a fear that he would not score his usual A or B. A growing practice is to let students select some courses outside their specialties in which their grades are recorded as only "pass...
...tough-talking hombre with a shock of silver-white hair and a mustache to match, Bill McGaw, 51, does not usually concern himself with current events. He likes to roam the West, tracking down such legends as the saga of the one-woman bawdyhouse in Columbus, N. Mex. Along the way he collects Western relics, including the stagecoach that may have carried President Polk to his inauguration. In July 1963 he learned that the New Mexico Press Association had held a dinner in honor of defeated' California Congressman John Rousselot, who is presently the public relations director...
...Wandering Birds. The British roam the moors, the heaths and the braes; Swiss and French scale the Alps, while Arab and Hindu plod weary miles to reach Mecca or the Ganges. To the German, however, the act, and not the object of the journey, is what counts. German doctors and orthopedists recommend wandern as good for the heart, lungs, legs and circulation. German sociologists inquire anxiously on questionnaires, "Do you walk with your wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century...