Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They must also wander around neighboring vacant lots plotting grave yards, practice grave registration, and have make-believe sessions of hospital visitation. These are duties which help a civilian minister to get himself oriented with his new tasks in the army...
...longer stand up under the horrors he must face . . . and yet his spirit will not allow him to turn back, then he may suddenly go blind, lose the use of his arms or legs, or he may forget his name and everything connected with his identity and wander...
...Hellenic qualities form the nucleus of a pell-mell plot that seldom leaves the disorderly Greenwich Village apartment. Ruth tries for writing fame, while Eileen makes a few half-hearted attempts to break into Gotham theatrical circles. Their efforts meet every grotesque obstacle known to the skillful playwright. Mashers wander through their flat at all times of the day and night, blasts from a new subway running underneath shatter their sleep, drunks peer at them through a street-level window, and a flabby pro football players from upstairs irons their clothes and sleeps in the kitchen. Six amorous Portuguese naval...
General Motors men wander freely in Ford's Willow Run; Ford men consult Chrysler men; Chrysler men lunch over blueprints with G.M. men; back-alley machine-shop men ask big-company engineers for help...
Harriet was puzzled by the "odd mortals that wander in from the western border." These pioneer statesmen of the expanding Union, she said, "cannot be described as a class, for no one is like anybody else." But she noted: "All [have] shrewd faces, and [are] probably very fit for the business they come upon...