Word: roamings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scott closed with the prayer of a Herero chief: "O Lord, help us who roam about . . . Give us back a dwelling place...
TIME'S founders conceived of an Art department which, while performing the function of criticism, would roam over the entire field of art journalism from old masters to contemporary painters. For like nearly every other aspect of each week's important happenings, the news of art is not always to be found in the big galleries, but frequently in alleys and side streets and back rooms like that of M. de Cardonne in Paris...
...turned to playwriting. He read widely and weirdly; like Friedrich Schiller's heroes, he considered himself a rebel; like Kierkegaard, a pessimystic; like Darwin, a scientist; like Goethe's Faust, he turned to black magic (which he practiced in his attic). When he was crossed, he would roam the woods lashing at branches and hacking down young trees; sometimes he would climb a tree and yell defiance at the universe...
Convicted traitor Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars asked a U.S. court why she couldn't get out of prison on bail now that the Government was letting convicted spy Judith Coplon "roam the streets unmolested." In Phoenix, Ariz., ex-Publisher John Boettiger filed a divorce complaint against the former Anna Roosevelt, charging extreme mental cruelty. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Boettiger announced that she would file one against him, charging desertion...
When the brood cows begin dropping their calves, vaqueros carefully note the mother's number-branded in foot-high figures on her side-for entry in the register. Then the calf, itself numbered and registered, is turned loose to roam. At the age of 18 months, fighting bulls are rounded up for the all-important tienta. It is the only trial they get before entering a ring. If they got any more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than...