Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked Stalin further, "did Mr. Churchill have to delude people" and "wander around the truth" in speaking of the growth of Communism in Europe? Churchill had made it sound like the result of Communist police-government tactics. It was really that Europe's "common people, having tried the Communists in the fire of struggle," had given Communists their confidence. Stalin added pointedly: "It is they, millions of these common people, who voted Mr. Churchill and his party out in England...
...Death, a Legend. Hashish and women interested him enormously, but he liked alcohol most. He traded off his fashionable clothes for one baggy, brown velvet suit, and took to staggering up & down the steep streets of Montmartre, drinking wine and coughing blood. He and Utrillo would wander into bars, introducing each other to the drunks inside as the "greatest painter in the world"; when the cops came, Modigliani would be carried off, excitedly reciting Dante to the uncomprehending constabulary. Head-wagging Parisians called him the peintre maudit (cursed painter...
...wide as the eye can wander...
...tourist courts with a capacity of 200. Many arthritics, unable to find room in Tombstone, motor the 72 miles from Tucson or the 20-odd miles from Bisbee and Benson to take the treatment. The old Crystal Palace Bar is in full swing and sick people wander around visiting the site of the OK Corral and gawking at Million Dollar Stope, a caved-in mine near the middle of town...
...Scientific research is elusive and in tangible. Working always on the edge of the unknown, scientists cannot plan their campaigns far ahead. Often they wander off in pursuit of fascinating side issues which, to their own surprise, sometimes turn out to be rewarding. The plodding technicians who follow behind the van guard might not be hampered by strict control. But the sometimes-erratic geniuses, who work best unsupervised, would find their style cramped under a nine-man Government Board...