Word: citybound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every sailboat man dreams at some time of cruising across the Pacific, running for days under warm breezes, dropping anchor for weeks at islands with names like Raratonga. Citybound mariners mostly learn to content themselves with a few weeks' cruising on inland waters or slashing around the markers in cutthroat weekend races. But young John Lipscomb, 18, and his father James, a writer and first-rate cinematographer (Blue Water, White Death), realized the total dream. James Lipscomb was able to sell the idea of a film about such a voyage. As a result, Son John became skipper...
...commute to the dacha on weekends, carrying supplies-a situation familiar to many urban American husbands. The role of dachas in Russian life is by no means new to the Soviet era. Anton Chekhov wrote a short story about a dachny muzh who made the best of his citybound work week by taking a mistress in the summer while his wife was at the dacha...
...seeds she has planted in a small garden. But she has made a friend -a penguin named Mickey Mouse -and she is beginning to feel that "this is my world and my life . . . it is so beautiful here I can't imagine Melbourne any longer." To millions of citybound Australians, Jane has become something of a heroine, but most apparently want to share her adventures vicariously at best. So far there has been no mass exodus to lonely offshore islands-including little De Witt, which still has a population of only...
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