Word: wander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stromberg, director of a private counseling service called Project Yes: "Most of these girls are looking for mothers or fathers-even if it involves a violent relationship. For many, this is their first sex experience." Adds Louise Cooper, a psychotherapist who has worked with runaways in the Village: "They wander around lost and angry, and it is hard to help them. There are almost no social agencies with government money. The public shelters are like jails. Since street life is hard, the kids get down to the basic fact of finding money for food. The boys deal drugs or panhandle...
...style hand-shaking frontal attack of a Sam Yorty, who can exude his own magnetism, McGovern needs the hovering press to create the excitement of a devoted following. Early in the campaign McGovern toured a shopping mall without a press entourage with the result that he had to wander through the aisles, a lone figure in search of a handshake. A week later, surrounded by the press. McGovern's appearance in a local Jordan Marsh managed to create the favorable impression of a much-loved candidate...
...Writing about the migrant way of life along the Atlantic seaboard from southern Florida to northern New York, Coles reminds his readers that "even many animals define themselves by where they live, yet we have thousands [some 300,000] of boys and girls who live utterly uprooted lives, who wander the American earth, who even as children enable us to eat by harvesting our crops but who never can think of any place as home...
...your story on the "troubles" in Northern Ireland [Jan. 10], you constantly wander from the real issue: the right of Ireland to exist as an undivided nation. Problems there may be in uniting the two Irelands, but they are problems created by the British. If the I.R.A. fails, its members will be branded cutthroats and criminals, but if they succeed they will be national heroes. Isn't that always the way? Even the British must know that sooner or later they are going to have...
...Then at midnight, hundreds of thousands of little homemade rafts bearing the offerings are pushed or paddled far out into the waves. If the offering is "accepted" by lemanjá it does not wash back onto the shore and it spells a lucky New Year. Hours later the people wander away, and by dawn all that is left on the sand is a mountain of trash, including the forlorn offerings that returned...