Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is space. Just 15 years ago, the average steer in the U.S. had about 86,000 sq. ft. of open range to roam in. The land could absorb excretion; natural processes converted it to fertilizer. Today the steer is likely to be crowded into outdoor feed lots with only 200 sq. ft. of living space. Feed lots, where livestock is scientifically bred and fattened for slaughter, were rare in the early 1950s. Now there are 256,000 for cattle alone, and a single facility containing 50,000 head is not uncommon. Since these feed lots are concentrated near cities...
Despite the swift pace of revival, misery has by no means been banished from the East Central State. Hospitals are short-staffed and overcrowded. Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the region stealing from villagers. In Enugu, a businessman explained why he could never reach Lagos by telephone: "Thieves steal the copper telephone lines, melt them down and sell the ingots in Lagos, where they are made into telephone lines...
Armed guerrillas roam at will throughout Jordan. The guerrillas act as their own police, and Jordanian police are powerless to do anything but go along with them. Hussein, in a postbattle press conference last week in the royal cinema of his Basman Palace in Amman, vowed that he would not abdicate. "I am not the type of person who can quit," he said. "This nation is part of me and I am part of it." But the King rules at the pleasure of the fedayeen, and his throne rests on the will of Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat as much...
...forces launched assaults against the town and its modern airport four miles to the northwest, the government committed nine battalions, including a full brigade of paratroopers, one of the few elite military units in Cambodia. The Cambodians managed to secure the city and airport. But the Communists continued to roam at will throughout the countryside, including the Angkor ruins, which the government declared an "open city" to prevent any battle damage. From art lovers around the world came messages appealing for both sides to consider the priceless ruins neutral. At week's end a convoy evacuated Angkor...
...London, I toast Pushkin. He does Hemingway, I do Turgenev. I do Nabokov, he counters with John Reed." Elsewhere, Bech vainly attempts to charm Yevtushenko by describing his own position in America not as a literary lion but as a "graying, furtively stylish rat indifferently permitted to gnaw and roam behind the wainscoting of a firetrap about to be demolished anyway...