Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forest Lawn is a cemetery in which nobody calls a spade a spade. Here the loss of life is known as "leavetaking," a corpse is "the loved one" or "the revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the knowledge that they can avoid seeing a tombstone; graves, marked only with bronze plaques set level with the ground, are clustered in such consoling sites as Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Sweet Memories, Everlasting Love. Infants are buried in Babyland, which is "shaped like a mother's heart," and Lullabyland...
...other major sport is the spectator so intimately connected with the events of the game. Players wander among the crowd, the stands are within ten feet of the field, and the absence of protective equipment renders nearly every participant's expression visible to the observers...
...smallest of New York's 18 state hospitals (never more than 2,300 patients), partly because it is the biggest employer in Ogdensburg (pop. 17,000). Many city officials, including the mayor, are on the hospital staff. Ogdensburgers pay little attention when patients with downtown privileges wander through the stores. For Dr. Hunt at Hudson River, it was tougher. Poughkeepsie (pop. 40,500) is all but surrounded by custodial institutions, some for violent criminals, and the people of Dutchess County have a horror of escapes. But Dr. Hunt now has 96% of his patients in unlocked wards...
...vice president from 1945 to 1947, fired an angry blast at his boss: "Dr. Stanton has finally revealed his ignorance both of news and the requirements of television production . . . Surely, Stanton must know that [Person to Person's^ cameras, lights and microphones don't just wander around the home. The producers must know who is going where and when and for how long. My conscience is clear. His seems to be bothering...
...latest proposed stratagem is simple: a bash on the head for every gooney. But chances are this plan will never really get off the ground. First of all, it will take the Navy at least five years to purge the birds: young gooneys leave Midway shortly after birth to wander, return only at the age of five. Furthermore, back in the U.S., outraged conservationists have organized a concerted protest to Congress against the projected slaughter...