Sentence:  Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason - I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades <WSD>standing</WSD> idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  be standing; be upright