Word: jaunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal day of rest for the railroad enthusiast is spent on a jaunt with his fellow enthusiasts to a destination which has significance in railroad history. The enthusiast of course prefers to ride behind steam, but in these trying times of dieselization, must be content just to ride. Whenever the "hogger" (engineer) stops for water (and engineers must ration such stops carefully now), just as like as not the railroad enthusiast will leap from the vestibule, race to the engine, and consume a role of Kodachrome in the excitement of the moment. If he's not taking photographs...
...Berlin at the Easter holidays, gave thousands of Berliners the urge to visit friends or go sightseeing in the opposite sector of their divided city. Trains between east and west operated at twice their usual capacity, and border traffic was unusually heavy. But not everyone was on a holiday jaunt. By last week 5,400 East Germans had taken advantage of the holiday crush to seek refuge in West Berlin. Defecting at the rate of 900 a day, they created the biggest mass rush to the West since the anti-Communist riots of June...
Although the Crimson lost all its games on its annual spring training jaunt to the South, Syracuse has fared little better this season. Both squads will be suffering from an excess of snow and little outdoor practice...
...lacrosse team will also make its annual jaunt South, leaving Sunday afternoon for a swing that will take them to Hofstra, Rutgers, Baltimore, and Navy. The Annapolis team is expected to provide the toughest competition and is favored to defeat the Crimson despite the fact that Coach Bruce Munro will have a squad much improved over last year...
...miere of a recording made in the U.S. by a recent visitor, Russian Pianist Emil Gilels (TIME, Oct. 17). On hand as the disk's jockey: Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas, a persistent advocate of U.S. -Soviet cultural exchanges ever since his 8,000-mile jaunt about the U.S.S.R...