Word: roam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideal Communist, Lei Feng is intended to be the model for Chinese youth who have trouble identifying with the grizzled veterans of the Long March and the Civil War. In the past year, at least 40 books have been written about Lei Feng, and 1,000 storytellers roam the villages enthralling illiterate peasants with his exploits and his love...
Finally, at the end of our critical departments, comes Books, which has its own free charter, and feels no need to review every machine-made bestseller, but can roam publishing's byways, selecting from huge historical works that will never reach a wide audience the newest evidence or appraisal of past events, or seeking out literary merit wherever it may be found, in the unknowns or even among the successes...
Though not as wellborn as Sister Virginia, Osio belonged to a gang of reckless noblemen who "did nothing night and day but roam the streets armed with forbidden weapons, breaking into houses, assaulting now this one, now that, giving them wounds." To accomplish the seduction of the nun, Osio frequently attended Mass at the convent, sent intermediaries with gifts of silver crucifixes and other valuables, and even employed a licentious priest to help him achieve a persuasive elegance in his love letters...
...dark, stench-ridden huts whose earth floors are awash during the rainy season. Outside, over open fires, the patients' women relatives cook, while a horde of chickens, dogs and goats (protected under Schweitzer's "reverence for life" mystique by which no living thing should be unnecessarily disturbed) roam at will, adding freely to the surrounding filth. When a patient dies and his body is unclaimed, it is wrapped in a fern-and-palm-leaf shroud, laid in a wooden box, and buried in the bush...
Mkele was South Africa's first African account executive in an advertising firm (J. Walter Thompson), but left to devote his full time to gathering the valuable data for an assault on the Bantu market. He and his teams roam the country, interviewing Bantu shoppers on city streets, in stores and in homes. By speaking Bantu (few whites do) and penetrating into areas long a mystery to white merchants, they have uncovered many of the fascinating needs, prejudices and preferences of the Bantus. "No longer must the African be regarded as an appendage of the white market," says Mkele...