Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VEEP'S MANDATE. So far, I have been given a freedom to roam. I think, first of all, that President Carter is not threatened by the Vice President. He told me when we met in July that he had just been reading some books on the presidency. One of the things that struck him was how Presidents seemed to feel threatened by the presence of a Vice President, as though he were a threat to their constitutional powers or reminded them of their mortality...
...acres in the town's Sun Shadows West subdivision. Hagar put in some wild Wisconsin prairie grass and let nature do the rest. The result: knee-high waves of goldenrod, aster, orchard grass and fleabane. Instead of a sputtering power mower, meadow larks, foxes and pheasants roam the Hagar yard...
...Lake Victoria flows northward to form the White Nile, whose waters boil over the majestic Murchison (now Kabalega) Falls at the start of their long journey to the Mediterranean. The Ruwenzori mountain range, better known as the Mountains of the Moon, rise to the southwest, while herds of game roam the green plains and rolling hills. Elysium was never more heavenly or tranquil...
...second source of mistreatment is the army, usually a bunch of freebooters who roam at will, breaking into houses, looting the contents, and, depending on the degree of their drunkenness and ugliness of mood, either let it go at that or work over the occupants with rifle butts or bayonets. Again, theoretically there should be restraints on this freelance terrorizing, but in practice there...
...that bulges and bristles with a mind-stunning array of electronic gadgetry designed to defend the plane and prevent interference with communications. It is also loaded with an equally dazzling array of high-and low-frequency communications devices. Capable of staying aloft for 72 hours, the plane can roam at low or very high altitudes, up to more than 45,000 ft. To keep in touch with U.S. submarines, the craft can unreel up to five miles of wire antenna, ¾ in. thick and weighing several tons...