Word: roam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friday night, pubs, cinemas and dog tracks get .theirs. Saturday morning, tradesmen get theirs. Unfortunately, stickup men usually take theirs early on Friday, and robbers in London alone last year made off with $700,000 worth of lolly. Alarmed by the rising robbery rate throughout Britain, as, bank trucks roam around with their cash loads, Parliament two years ago repealed the Truck Act, permitting firms to pay their workers by check. This month the change went into full effect-but those who counted on a dramatic change underestimated the power of habit in Britain...
...have less contact with people are likely to turn savage when they grow up. Most of Dr. Ginsburg's wolves are uncannily bright. They have learned to work switches and faucets; their cages must be fitted with locks operated from outside lest they unfasten the inside latches and roam the lab building...
...ringing in an occasional private detective disguised as a moviegoer to make sure the audience count is correct. He is insistent on cleanliness, will berate usherettes for not pick ing up paper from the aisles and scold janitors when he finds dust in rest rooms. Sack likes to roam his lobbies, reminding women patrons that "this place is clean enough to bring your children to, right?" He has been known to step out of his $15,000, chauffeur-driven Cadillac in front of a Sack theater to hustle customers into the house like a sideshow barker...
...Millions of dollars (largely American) and a goodly share of the U.N.'s prestige is at stake in making the Congo regime work. Premier Cyrille Adoula tries hard, but thieves roam the streets, and some get jobs as ambassadors. See THE WORLD...
...enterprising news-public affairs entrepreneurs roam the globe to update the current events story (and pretty soon every nook and corner will have been explored, extending into outer space), the man in work clothes and business suit who has just returned home from a day with other men in work clothes and business suits finds himself watching and listening to still other men in work clothes and business suits. Which is O.K., up to a point, since TV or any other medium bereft of enlightenment will justifiably fade into oblivion . . . But how long is it since TV has unearthed...