Word: roam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic soldier-priest who began fighting the Viet Cong in 1959. The instructors' wives wove grass rugs and made clay cooking pots, while children helped to fashion the village's huts and whittled vicious punji stakes of bamboo. For added authenticity, chickens were let loose to roam the village...
...many kids suffer from "negative phenomena": they like to have fun. For some time, teen-agers have displayed a distressing lack of interest in youth-league meetings and lectures, preferring to kill time at youth cafés and ice-cream parlors. Sometimes they get hold of vodka and roam the streets in gangs, smashing park benches and windows. Last June a bunch of high school students celebrated graduation with a rumble that killed one boy and injured 14 in Moscow...
...Merits. Of the two papers, the morning Republic (circ. 156,000), has changed more dramatically than the afternoon Gazette (100,000). In the last four years, the Republic has boosted its reporting staff from 65 to 100, stationed one reporter in Viet Nam while others roam, the globe. Arizona staffers have delved into such topics as poverty, the new math, smog, pornography, and corruption in the state tax commission. The paper fought successfully to save nearby scenic Camelback Mountain from private developers...
Gatto is willing to guess about his fate next year. With Bobby Leo, Pat Conway, and other experienced backs returning, he doesn't expect to rush much, but he hopes to run back kickoffs and punts. Gatto would be glad to roam the defensive backfield, but his lack of height might work against him there...
...running for mayor because the city is in crisis. The streets are filthy. We'll rip down the cruddy slums in this town. There is crime. And 125,000 teen-agers roam the streets with no jobs, no schooling. New York is the heroin capital of the world. And people are afraid...