Word: wanderlied
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...they wish to consult reference works either in Widener or Lamont; for a dozen or more foul-smelling pipes are exploding clouds of bitter smoke into their eyes, mouth, and nose until they are almost suffocated. In Lamont, although smoking is permitted only in the reference room, smokers wander about the reserve shelves, perfectly oblivious of the fact that there are boundaries...
...London's Holborn district, a butcher adorned his empty window with the hand-written text: "Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. (Psalm 59, Verse...
...pleasant time, before such modern conveniences as electrified tote boards and raucous public address systems. If a racegoer had no special interest in placing a bet at the moment, he could wander down to the stable area along the Susquehanna, watch such thoroughbreds as Exterminator or Sir Barton grazing under the trees. After the races there was the leisurely ride home, or perhaps a turn at the roulette wheel or dice table in what was apt to be, in race season, a relaxed and hospitable town...
...prospects at Mahwa were unpromising. Most of the people were illiterate, half-starved, infested with disease and parasites. The ill-cultivated land swarmed with sacred cows, which were allowed to wander unchecked, competing with the people for the meager crops...
Betterment projects-roads, schools, housing developments, steel mills-are begun and never completed. At Zenica, slated to be the Pittsburgh of Yugoslavia, you see it spelled out. Peasants undertaking to become skilled workers wander back to the land. Youth brigades are digging foundations for a rolling mill-a job best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just...