Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought a successful war of limited objectives with Spain without dreaming of taking Madrid. The Japanese fought a successful war of limited objectives with Russia without having to wander to Petrograd. In fact, the war of limited objectives is a thousand times more frequent in the pages of history than the apocalyptic war of unconditional surrender. The defeat of Germany in 1945 was so impressive an event that it has almost persuaded a generation that this is the only kind of war. In fact, the 1945 victory is almost unique...
Invitation to Wander. There, while she rocked back & forth in her chair with her little dog Lolo in her lap, Gertrude Stein talked and talked. She talked, among other things, about America. As Wilder listened, all his lessons-the digging at Rome, Wager's "Every great work was written this morning"-fell into place. Gertrude Stein made a distinction between human nature and the human mind. Human nature, she said, clings to identity, to location in time and place. The human mind has no identity; it gazes at pure existing and pure creating, and "it knows what it knows...
...tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating for Billy: "Dr. Graham has such a lion's voice, so much power, and he speaks so rapidly, I can't let my mind wander a minute...
...feet unguided wander...
...inherent in any censorial set-up, the one in the Commonwealth presents the further evil of uncertain boundaries. The limits of the system are almost impossible to define partially because the system is largely a secret one, and partially because a host of small pressure groups and private individuals wander around the field...