Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melton, 36, has pursued his hobby of spiritual taxonomy for 15 years. He is now a Methodist pastor in Evanston, Ill., and his rambling parsonage houses the Institute for the Study of American Religion. Melton has conducted hundreds of field interviews. During one foray to the offices of the animal-loving Church of All Worlds, his wife Dorothea went into a bathroom only to confront a live boa constrictor curled in the corner and a 4-ft. crocodile...
...balloting by the country's blacks, a heavily armed Rhodesian raiding party last week struck deeply into Zambia, which provides a headquarters and staging bases for 16,000 irregulars of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). In a lightning foray that underscored the feeble defenses of Rhodesia's black-ruled northern neighbor, the invaders overwhelmed a Zambian army base and razed Nkomo's home and headquarters. The suspicion was that the Rhodesians intended either to assassinate the portly nationalist leader or to take him back to Salisbury as a hostage...
...principal rival for the nomination in a race that most political experts predict will be settled in the early state primaries. The first is in New Hampshire, eleven months from now. Last week Connally, accompanied by Wife Nellie and a van of political reporters, made his first foray into the state since announcing his candidacy. In speeches and press conferences, he called for new decisive leadership to rescue the U.S. from the grasp of oil sheiks and end the dollar's decline. Said he: "We're going to have to reinstill pride in America for what...
...legislature that charges in the Manchester Union Leader about his sex life and drinking habits were "beneath contempt." Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker speechified at a Republican banquet in Concord. Former CIA Director George Bush preceded, and followed, all three. Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker is planning a foray. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan, fearful of not winning big enough if he does come in, is petrified that he will not be nominated at all if he stays out. And up in Durham, waiting for the call to marshal the state's Democrats behind their true love, Senator Edward Kennedy...
...dangerous foray into enemy territory, the men's varsity basketball expeditionary force will try to outgun Yale at New Haven. The JV's send out an advance force at 5:30 p.m., and the first shots in the varsity tilt will be fired...