Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vienna though, Weller once again began to feel the pull of the press and he fell into the circle of foreign correspondents who spent their nights in the city's cafes. It wasn't long before Weller gave up the stage and began to roam the Balkans as a freelance writer...
...whose department Nixon has largely bypassed in the making of foreign policy. For the President, Kissinger has been a combination of professor-in-residence, secret agent, ultimate advance man and philosopher-prince. In an important sense, he is Nixon's creation, using the power base of the presidency to roam the world and speak for Nixon, to set the stage for summits, to negotiate war and peace. There have been similar relationships before, but none exactly the same: Richelieu and Louis XIII, Metternich and Hapsburg Emperor Francis I, Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson, Harry Hopkins and F.D.R...
...succession is plainly and sadly inadequate to cope with the stresses of future shock, political, social and economic (see box). In many ways, Spain is belatedly catching up with its neighbors. Only a generation ago, Spanish girls were not allowed out without duennas; today they roam alone in miniskirts on the street and bikinis on the beach. Some working-class families, for the first time have telephones, refrigerators and TVs, and every sizable city has a traffic jam. Spaniards, in short, are changing far more quickly and easily than their institutions, which are showing increasing strains. Items...
...identified as a Compsognathus corallestris, which, loosely translated from the Greek, means "long-jawed coral dweller." A shade over 15 in. high and only 49 in. long, the tiny reptile had a skeleton similar in construction to those of monster dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus, largest land animal ever to roam the earth. But corallestris hardly seems like a dinosaur at all. Whereas other dinosaurs lived on dry land or in swamps, corallestris made its home on offshore atolls. Like a heron or cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching fish or lizards...
Located in the heart of Tidewater Virginia, the 1,400-acre farm is hardly distinguishable from its neighbors along the James River. There are fields of soybeans, corn and peanuts; well-fed cattle roam the pastures. Only its name seems special: "Flowerdew Hundred" has survived almost intact since 1618 when it was chosen by its first owner, Governor Sir George Yeardley, in honor of his wife, Temperance Flowerdieu ("hundred" is an old English land division). But now Flowerdew Hundred has acquired unexpected fame: within its boundaries, diggers have discovered the remains of one of the earliest English plantations...