Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast a land of smiles, health and purpose-if not of freedom. True, life is regimented, spare and hard by any standard, and the country's ancient cultural heritage has been all but obliterated; but no longer do beggars, prostitutes and addicts throng the cities or bandit gangs roam the countryside. Most fundamentally, perhaps, the deeply rooted Confucian attitudes of docility and resignation have virtually disappeared in favor of Mao's Promethean notion that the human will can solve all problems...
...YORK is an urban wilderness. A forest of skyscrapers supports a canopy of smog, the streets are a desolate and forbidding territory, human artifices like subway tunnels and telephone booths are derelict endeavors slowly returning to the soil, while primitive creatures roam about. Yes sir, this is the new frontier, and Charlie Bronson is its trailblazing pioneer in Death Wish...
...television cameraman, lanky, easygoing, well liked. Focusing on the hard legs of show girls and the putty faces of comedians is only his job. His life is with Sandy, their two small sons, and with New York City itself. As an amateur still-photographer, Jay loves to roam the city and poke his lenses into the varied faces of his fellow New Yorkers. Sometimes, when startled out of their reveries, they poke back. At home he arranges his photos on the bed and casually plans to publish them in a book...
...Iain Ross, a white British citizen born in Uganda, began turning his job over to a black man. For six years Ross had been chief warden of the Kidepo Valley National Park, 500 sq. mi. of wilderness near the border of Sudan and Kenya. Animals roam free there under park protection, but are in danger from poachers. Outside the park, a conflict splutters and periodically burns between Uganda and Tanzania, like the brushfires that menace the park itself...
...disengagement line. Jerusalem wanted relatively wide areas of 14.5 miles on either side of the U.N. buffer manned by limited forces in static positions. Damascus, on the contrary, wanted narrow zones (no more than three miles), each manned by 20,000 men and a hundred tanks free to roam instead of being confined to fixed positions. One reason: Damascus, Syria's capital, is only 30 miles from the present front. Syria also objected to an Israeli proposal that a high-flying U.S. SR-71 reconnaissance plane monitor the ceasefire, like the one that surveys Israeli and Egyptian positions...