Word: foraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite an initial foray into undergraduatepolitics in his first year, when he was elected tothe Freshman Council, the future U.S. Senator and1988 presidential candidate was largely absentfrom campus political life...
...Every foray into the forest brings us face-to-face with wildlife, most notably gorillas. In one day we tally four separate encounters, and by the end of the trip we have found 15 gorilla groups. A couple of silverbacks, or mature males, go through the motions of halfhearted charges, but most do not come forward even in response to distress calls and hand clapping by apprehensive females when we get between them and the males. We take to calling these circumspect males the "pacifist gorillas of Ndoki." The gorillas also seemed blithely unaware that they are supposed...
...wire service again avoided dissolution when London-based Middle East Broadcasting Center agreed to purchase it for $3.95 million. The chairman and principal shareholder of MBC is Sheik Walid al-Ibrahim, brother-in-law of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The U.P.I. purchase marks the Saudis' first foray into the mainstream American press...
...Minutes recently interviewed Jerry Zucker, writer/director of Airplane: The Movie, The Naked Gun, and Ghost. Brain Donors is his latest foray into the zany world of cinema slapstick...
...only initial disappointment is that this tale of Joe and Violet and Dorcas lacks the majestic scale of Beloved, that sense of traveling through space and time and other worlds. Jazz is much more grounded--in fact, its only extension foray into the past, the story of Goldman Gray seems tangential simply because it is so singularly atemperal...