Word: foray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare foray beyond the Vatican's walls, Pope Pius XII journeyed a short distance in Rome, appeared at the sooth anniversary celebration of the Collegio Capranica, a small but distinguished seminary (world's oldest) where he was a young student 62 years ago. His Holiness kissed the feet of an old familiar crucifix, inspected the tiny room he once occupied, presented the college with a pearl-encrust ed chalice as a quincentennial present...
Surprisingly enough, there are very few large-scale gang wars in Cambridge. A few years ago, about 200 Cambridge youths invaded Belmont to redress an alleged grievance, but nothing came of that foray. On the whole, the fighting has been confined to chance encounters between a few members of rival gangs. The odds are seldom even, and if one gang is able to obtain an eight to one numerical advantage, more power...
...lured her to a villa outside Paris, stripped her naked and bound her to a bed, beat her with switches, slashed her with a knife, and poured wax in the wounds. Exiled to his estate in Provence, Sade organized a private harem of both sexes. In a foray to Marseilles with his valet, he beat four streetwalkers and allegedly tried to poison one of them. When the police came to arrest him. they found he had run off to Italy with his wife's young sister. In 1777 he recklessly returned to Paris, where his long-suffering mother...
...stoke up Arab rivalries and suspicions, Russia's Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov accused Britain, France and Israel of planning "new aggression" against Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and Radio Moscow bristled against Turkey and Iraq. Just in case Syria's anti-Communist neighbors were genuinely worried about a foray from Syria, the U.S. State Department announced that it would view "with the utmost gravity" any threat to "the territorial integrity or political independence" of any member of the Baghdad Pact. This was also meant to remove from Turkey and Iraq any pretext for moving into Syria...
...guests often gather around a baby-grand piano while Mrs. Rockefeller plays Mendelssohn or Chopin, or the J.D.R. Jr.s might drive downtown to the Criterion in Bar Harbor to a movie, e.g., The King and I. Every now and then, J.D.R. Jr. darts out on a sudden foray: one day he remarked to a visitor that he had just been out to buy 22 Bibles, "one for each of my grandchildren...