Word: jaunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...
Responsible for the increase in expenses for the 17-mile jaunt is a bill, signed into law yesterday by Governor Paul A. Dever, raising the state gasoline tax from three to 4.3 cents a gallon...
...recent European jaunt, said Bernard Baruch, he had spent two days visiting Old Friend Winston Churchill, who "talks about nothing but horses. He can't hear any better than I can, but he won't wear an ear machine." Another conversation was reported by James Eldridge of the American Association for the United Nations, just back in Chicago from London. Curious to know what political party Churchill would have chosen had he been an American, Eldridge dropped a leading remark: "I believe you're Tory enough that you'd be a Midwest Republican." "Well," answered Churchill...
...when the Nazis blitzed across the Polish border to start World War II. He has also followed gentler pursuits, e.g., bridge expert for the New York Herald Tribune. During his newspaper career, he got his first good look at the East. He set off on a westward jaunt around the world in 1940, reported the war's effects on Free China and Hong Kong, took a look behind the Japanese lines, and, incidentally, had several interviews with TIME coverman Chou Enlai...
...stayed on the coast for another 14 months, got small parts (at $35,000 each) in two pictures (Panic in the Streets and the current Fourteen Hours) with 20th Century-Fox. Then she quit. Last fall, after a brief jaunt in summer stock, she went back to Broadway and the stage...