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Word: roamings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest achievement of African Lion was in its making, the film's greatest fascination lies in its cast. The lion, the leopard, and the cheetah roam, play, and kill among giant herds of wildebeest, impala, and zebra. Stalking, killing, and the division of the spoils take place seemingly within feet of the camera. Then too, there are elephants, baboons, and hippos, scavengers and clowns. The immediacy of these photographs is so consistently startling that it soon becomes truly difficult to believe one's eyes. And yet they must be believed...

Author: By John A. Popn, | Title: The African Lion | 1/18/1956 | See Source »

...hour at a time during this session. Each day he expects to be on hand from noon until 1 p.m.; then he will retire to his second-floor office, off the Senate Gallery, for a two-hour nap. Late in the afternoon he will reappear on the floor briefly, roam the cloak rooms, head for home before 6 p.m. In case of crisis, Johnson's vigilant colleagues will summon him from his hideaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Nub: Politics | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

According to Ready, "various civic groups, women's clubs and experts on juvenile delinquency" have been agitating for the new law. He said the measure was proposed to help curb the teenage gangs that roam the streets at night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officials Seek Curfew of 11 In Cambridge | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Reformation--better known as "Ren and Ref"--overflowed two lecture halls this fall before it finally found one large enough. During class one of Gilmore's hands inevitably slips into a pocket while the other juggles a piece of chalk. His calmly-delivered lectures do not proceed chronologically, but roam topically instead...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: Unruffled Humanist | 11/15/1955 | See Source »

...Mamie's room to chat and pace the room for exercise while she breakfasted or lunched. His own meals were hearty ones: steak, prime ribs of beef, roast partridge. Attendants brought his lunch to Mamie's room one day, his breakfast the next. He was allowed to roam about whenever he wanted to on the hospital's eighth floor, permitted out of bed any time except during his two-hour afternoon rest. Pushing its control button i, he received some visitors in "my electric chair," a fancy convalescent device that raised and lowered his back and legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homeward Bound | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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