Word: wander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forstall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly named, Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew...
During the campaign, Faubus, for the most part, avoided talking on segregation, astutely carved out for himself the image of a moderate. The results, he said, proved "that the people do not wish to wander in the thickets of extremism to either the right or the left...
...frontier clearing into a forest that formerly belonged to the earthbound Department of Agriculture. Its buildings, with odd antennas sprouting from their roofs, suggest the fearful complexity of the space age. Coaxial cables rear out of the ground and dive into the innards of electronic computers. Owlish young mathematicians wander in forests of electronics, flicking computer switches and managing somehow to look both callow and wise...
...sensibly-suited American woman disembarked at Tokyo's International Airport last week, she brushed off the hundred guides who scrambled to show her the sights. She had come to Japan not to wander the shrines and teahouses but, like the friend at home who had tipped her off (and that friend's friend, and so on and so on), for an abortion...
...could fry without feeling the heat. But burning and freezing are ancient dangers, and nature has had plenty of time to evolve defenses. X rays and gamma rays are a subtler peril. Until recently, they were unimportant hazards in the human environment; evolution largely ignored them. Modern man can wander unheeding into strong radiation that he cannot feel, see, hear, smell or taste. And unless he carries an artificial radiation sense (a Geiger counter, ionization chamber, etc.), he may get a fatal dose without a suspicion of an alarm...