Word: roam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equipped with bloated rear tires, it rolls as easily over beaches as a dune buggy; wearing snow tires, it can roam freely on backwoods trails as a hunting vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000). But where do they come from? Only when the car starts is its genealogy revealed: beneath the skin beats the shrill, short-stroke engine of the lowly Volkswagen...
Today's team consist of three midfielders who can roam into any area of the field and boost the attack or backup the defense; three defensemen usually permitted only in the two sectors of the field closest to the goal they are protecting; and three attackmen, normally restricted to the two areas farthest from their own goal...
AMERICAN PROFILE: HOME COUNTRY, USA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley discusses the belief that the strength of the U.S. rests in its grass roots. Camera crews roam the countryside recording the lives of Americans from East Boothbay Harbor, Me., to Bozeman, Mont...
...position is even less favorable in the two northern corps. There the enemy continues to roam almost at will in large units, forcing the Americans to stay holed up in their bases most of the time. In the Central Highlands of the II Corps last week three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars managed to break through the perimeter wire of a U.S. artillery base and overran one howitzer position...
...would be hard to find a tougher or more tenacious people than Australia's Aborigines. They have to be. Virtually Stone Age nomads, the Aborigine tribes roam naked through the desolate Australian outback, where temperatures in summer often hit 120°. They live off the arid land, eating grubs and roots and maybe, if they get lucky, an occasional lizard or kangaroo. Last week in Tokyo, Lionel Rose, 19, a leathery young Aborigine from Gippsland, Victoria, put his native toughness and tenacity to good use. By outboxing, outpunching and outpointing Japan's Masahiko ("Fighting") Harada over 15 furious...