Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...border, jounced a U.S. Army weapons carrier one evening last week, bearing seven off-duty medics of the 186th Field Artillery Batallion. On the main street the truck halted, while Captain Jack M. Davis cautiously asked townspeople about the exact location of the border; he was anxious not to wander over...
...city, and Director Max Ophuls' camera peeks through doors and latticed windows at the girls and their guests, islands of light and laughter in the tomblike silence of the town. Then one night the house is closed tight, and its baffled habitues turn away from the door to wander unhappily in the streets...
...knows where such an outlaw particle could have come from. One colorful theory holds that somewhere in the universe there may be stars or whole galaxies made of reversed matter. From them escape antiprotons that wander through space, perhaps for billions of years, until they hit normal protons (as in Professor Rossi's brass plate) and are annihilated...
...love song that seems destined for the top these days is a composition entitled "My Restless Lover." A masterpiece of word economy, it uses a total vocabulary of twenty-four words. The lyrics are catchy, "Johnny, Johnny, Johnny come home. Johnny Guitar, why must you wander? Oh, Johnny, Johnny Guitar." Needless to say, the title was changed from "Johnny Guitar" to increase it emotional appeal. Another deft stroke for the trade was "You, you, you, I'm in love with you, you, you," a song whose pedestrian melody never caught the fire of its lyrics. There is a sleeper, just...
...seemed doubtful that any fair military court could come to a sharper decision, or avoid creating some kind of military limbo in which such hapless men as Colonel Schwable would be compelled to wander, unpunished but unloved, for the rest of their lives...