Word: roamings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordnance. For the U.S., the British censor passed articles like that of William H. Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News and New York Post: "If it were not for the R.A.F. and the Home Guard, an invading German Army equipped with Panzer divisions and several divisions of infantry could roam England, spreading havoc for at least one week, and at the end of that time could still exist as a fighting unit...
Today he paints little else. On a hilly, wooded seven-acre farm about eight miles from Atlanta, he lives with his buxom wife, a family of wild turkeys, two Canada geese, three mallard ducks, a sparrow hawk, two pigeons and three quail. The turkeys roam all over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...
Smartest users of music to make political points are the Almanac Singers, four young men who roam around the country in a $150 Buick and fight the class war with ballads and guitars. Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...
...wild state . . . a place where they arrest people on account of the books in their libraries, where a 'nigger's got to know his place' . . . where the Ku Klux Klan still ranges in their primordial shirttails through the cow pastures and where cro-magnon men still roam the wilderness in dinner coats and black ties. . . . Also where they do not allow Charles Lindbergh to speak...
...only got around, meeting Mussolini, Laval, the Sultan of Sulu and many another world character, he also consistently stuck to the view that the U.S. could not merely look inwardly to its own security, that it could not long remain safe in a world where aggressors were allowed to roam free...