Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucius first made a false start by opening the wrong bookbag, but soon his books were all grouped right there around the clock in front of him. His hand ruffled their yellow and green page markers affectionately and then selected a favorite. After an hour his attention began to wander, and despite himself, Lucius began to think of Miss Schroeder...
...high. The tube transmits as much as 25 h.p. on a beam of 10 cm. waves shot into the air by a dish antenna. A nest of these tubes can be focused at a point about 50,000 ft. up. Some of the beams' energy will wander off into space, but Raytheon scientists believe that a saucer-shaped receiver can capture 35% to 50%. Turned into heat, this energy could drive a gas turbine which would drive the helicopter blades...
...that we are suffering from an Identity Crisis. What this is exactly is explained by Sara Dakin (co-editor of Gadfly) in her laboriously symbolic essay, "Pig." At the price of trying to write on six levels of meaning, and, after switching metaphors in midstream, she says, "All pigs wander through this limbo period, constantly asking themselves "Who am I?' and 'What is my place in the pen?' This. . . we described as undergoing an identity crisis...
...India's biggest problems in creating more food is the population of 203 million cattle, most of which are regarded with religious reverence by Hindus. The sacred cows wander freely through Indian fields eating as they please, proliferating without restraint, dying at a ripe old age (in many Indian states it is illegal to kill a cow). Since they may not be eaten as food, they contribute little to the Indian food supply, of which they consume a great deal. If they cannot be killed, they might be sterilized, the Ford experts suggest...
...stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies, bands in the stands, special "nights" for fans. Veeck himself will wander through the stands, sitting with the fans to talk baseball and listen to their gripes. At odd moments he will do duty at the turnstiles, taking tickets-and, of course, counting the house...