Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still other Boston youngsters, however, will spend the year just hanging around. In the past few weeks there has been an alarming increase in minor crime-robberies, car break-ins-all over South Boston as teen-agers roam the streets with little to do. Says one South Boston social worker: "When kids see their parents chucking rocks at school buses, that begins the breakdown of all kinds of societal rules...
...solid evidence and gradually releasing detainees has repopulated the countryside with alleged I.R.A. diehards. As an example of Rees' tolerance, Ian Paisley angrily charged -and the British army admitted-that Seamus Twomey, chief of staff of the I.R.A. Provisionals, was now off their wanted list, quite free to roam at will over embattled Ulster...
...between the lines, Donleavy's diatribes manage to say more. In passing fancies he sees visions of grace, chivalry and order. Lords sit in their castles while peasants roam the meadow (with a moat between them). Butlers who know their place well serve perfectly prepared drinks to deserving pukka-sahib colonels. At such tenderly sardonic moments, Donleavy seems to reveal himself as an inverted romantic, profoundly sad beneath his disguise because he and the world are no better than they happen...
...sprawling private hunting preserve northwest of Ann Arbor that is owned by Louis ("Big Louie") Ruggirello, a prosperous entrepreneur who has been imprisoned for cheating on his income taxes. Ruggirello often invites his friends in to hunt for deer and foxes and other game. The lawmen want to roam the grounds to hunt for the body of Jimmy Hoffa...
...sprawls over 17,300 square miles and is reputedly the world's biggest national park. Located on the 60th parallel between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, the park is laced with hundreds of lakes, forests, and meadows where whooping cranes summer and the last large herds of bison roam. There are only 16 developed campsites, though bivouacking is allowed if the visitor has a campfire permit...