Word: tracker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Columbia's famed Sociologist Robert S. Lynd (Middletown, Middletown in Transition), at a youth conference in New York's City Hall. The trend which alarmed this veteran tracker of U.S. trends was the prospect that the nation's early-teenagers are growing up to be a new "lost" generation like that in Germany and Austria after World War I. "Too young for the glory of having been in war," said he, they will be "passed over when jobs are given returning veterans...
Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...
...Takes Over. Instructions are usually given in the crudest of pidgin English. If a plane is known to be down in the bush an officer may order: "Charlie No. 2, you all along go find a motor-car-run-along-sky come down that way." (The number distinguishes this tracker from Charlie...