Word: foraying
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...fast becoming the western world's most frequent spokesman on Anglo-American characteristics. By birth (1900) a Scots-Irish Glaswegian, Brogan was educated at Glasgow, Oxford and Harvard, has since published scholarly, lively studies of three nations-The American Character, The English People, The Free State. His newest foray is a collection of 27 essays on French figures and subjects ranging from political and military (including Clemenceau, Jaures, Darlan, De Gaulle) to literary (Dumas, Proust...
...looking more greyly senatorial than his senatorial brother, Dick Byrd will have technical control of the Navy's trident expedition. Direct commander of Task Force 68 will be lean, bouncy Captain Richard H. Cruzen (No. 2 to Byrd and skipper of the Bear in the 1939-41 foray). He will have under him twelve ships in three groups, to cover the widest possible area in the short season of light. When a base is set up on the Ross Shelf Ice, planes will be flown in from a carrier...
Later, Mr. Yaco's ox disappeared in the course of a Greek incursion "50 meters" into Albanian territory. Mr. Drallios' mule, the Greeks charged, was carried off by a foray of Albanian armed forces into Greece. It was "never restored...
...Bill's room later on, Bill chased him off to Texas. But George kept writing him letters (always copying Bill's script) and then he came back to Chicago and promptly started on more burglary. When a cop knocked him cold with a flowerpot in an apartment foray one night, George turned out to be Bill...
...Winston Churchill's recent visit to Manhattan he made a foray into politico-entomology. Said he: "Our Communist friends should study . . . the life and the soul of the white ant. That will show them not only a great deal about their past but will give them a fair indication of their future...