Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walk, or, if need be, march together in harmony and in accordance with the moral and political conceptions to which English-speaking peoples have given birth . . . all will be well. If they fall apart and wander astray from the lines of their destiny, there is no end or measure to the miseries and confusion which would mark modern civilization...
...area of the crash is some distance away, Charlie No. 2 may go part way by plane or truck. Then he goes ahead on foot, seeming to wander aimlessly, pausing now and again to examine a clump of bushes, some disarranged grass or stones. When the trail becomes fresher he lopes forward, confident and tireless. Sometimes he warns that they had better hurry, saying "Bimeby he finish...
...Hitler's] sleepwalking manner is greatly accentuated and now gives place only rarely to the old flashes of violent energy. It is disconcerting to talk with him as his eyes wander away. . . . [His] preoccupation as to 'what the English think' has grown into something like an obsession...
...just the advent of spring that's bothering all the harried undergraduates who wander around aimlessly. Exam period is upon the College, and its effect is noticeable...
Some R.A.F. expressions wander into wondrous double talk. Example: "Can I get a taxi?" asked the American outside the Savoy. "You've had it," said the R.A.F. flyer, i.e., "You haven...