Word: roaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powerless to Prevent. Japan's once-dreaded police today are circumscribed by so many restrictions, imposed in the name of civil rights, that they cannot even arrest a drunk until he hits someone. More than 450 gangs (with a membership of 12,000) roam the streets of Tokyo, and the police say they are powerless to take preventive action against them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take...
...background against which these visions take shape is composed of blasted heaths and stark, sun-baked mountains; in the foreground are a rich aristocracy and poor peasantry whose lot is still hard despite the great strides toward prosperity made by Sicily in the past decade. Between the two extremes roam the brigands and the men of the Mafia, who from time immemorial have existed by making the "protection" indispensable to prince and peasant...
Life among the Swedish Lapps who roam the tundras above the Arctic Circle was a dolorous affair a century ago. As a result, the Lapps drowned their sorrows in barrels of aquavit. Then into the Laplanders' midst came Lars Levi Laestadius, famed botanist and Lutheran minister, with a message of hellfire and brimstone of such urgency that it sobered up Laplanders by the hundreds, set off a revivalist movement that is still a major force for morality and sobriety...
...cities, into the tundra, across the forbidding mountains and glaciers into the valleys" (TIME, June 9), Bill Smith. 28, a spring-legged, outdoor-loving correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau, moved up to Anchorage. From his base in Alaska's busiest city (pop. 35,000), Bachelor Smith will roam the new state, reporting Alaska's passage into the Union and the forward march on the newest U.S. frontier. After two days in Anchorage last week, Reporter Smith flew on to Juneau, looked forward to his new job as "a tremendously exciting experience...
...When the Detroit Tigers, picked to roam in the American League's first division, turned out to be a bunch of second-division tabby cats, General Manager Jack McHale did the obvious thing: he fired Jack Tighe, his genial field manager ("Jack tried to be all things to all men"), replaced him with an unknown named Henry Willis Patrick ("Bill") Norman, manager of Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees...