Word: roamings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote Mahatma Gandhi, "is the mother to millions of Indian mankind. She is a poem of pity." By tradition and training, many another devout Hindu through the centuries had assumed the same attitude toward the beasts who roam India's city streets and country lanes by the millions. It is a statutory crime in India to kill a cow. In 1944 a high-caste Hindu, who accidentally let one of his own cows strangle herself, was forced to roam the streets for three days with a halter around his neck, mooing for food and forgiveness...
...were prizes won in a long lifetime of stalking antique stores. Her Majesty's great green Daimler was a familiar sight parked in front of London shops. When she arrived, sometimes on less than an hour's notice, the dealer closed his doors, let the old lady roam through all crannies. Some dealers kept a special drawer for her, in which they put aside items of the kind she favored. Others, knowing her penchant for exploring, prepared their shops as for an Easter-egg hunt, with curios to a queen's taste hidden where she was sure...
...Jenkins' profession and stature had not formed an opinion on Senator Joe McCarthy. But in Knoxville, this was not hard to understand. During his working hours, Jenkins is a busy lawyer absorbed in his cases; during weekends, he is a gentleman farmer who likes to roam over his 520 acres on the Little Tennessee River, rejoicing in his herd (150 head) of Herefords. In the fall he never misses a University of Tennessee football game, wears the same lucky green tie to every one. (Says he: "I'd rather go to a Tennessee game without my pants than...
...chairmanship of Senator Mundt, the hearings have aimed at anything but brevity. Mundt's smiling submission to stalling and deviations on both sides and to the points of disorder raised by McCarthy, has won him acclaim as an impartial and patient judge. But this leniency has let the inquiry roam through so many irrelevant topics, that talk of a Christmas recess is hardly unwarranted. At the rate hearings have progressed so far, public interest will surely ebb long before they are finished. Moreover, the television networks, which have taken terrific losses in return for their extensive coverage, will probably omit...
...never, no never, no more shall I roam...