Word: jaunt
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...Geoffrey Carens is a microtext reproduction specialist. Most weekdays, he sits at a reference desk in Lamont Library and assists students in operating the digital scanners. Save for a lunchtime jaunt, Carens has barely seen the light of day by the time he emerges from the library...
...happen? On Saturday, Denville native Demauro and her friend John Capra decided to indulge their yen to bet. Their Atlantic City jaunt began innocuously enough, with Demauro, only a casual casinogoer, planting herself in front of a penny slot machine on the Borgata floor and Capra going off to try his hand at three-card poker. (See an interview with the new king of poker...
Just kidding. Spring Break happened way before the swine flu pandemic cropped up. And according to Harvard University Health Services Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, that means you're off the hook for your jaunt south of the border...
...with his affluent roommate before he packs his pencil for Columbia’s journalism school. Catastrophe strikes, however, when Dad is demoted and can’t foot the vacation bill. For the first time in his life, James has to find a job. No self-indulgent European jaunt for him—just Pittsburgh, tiny paychecks and “the work of pathetic, lazy morons.” James despises his job at Adventureland Amusement Park, but his summer brightens when he meets smart, funny co-worker Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart, “Twilight?...
Nixon was the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation and the jaunt, which came smack in the midst of the Cold War, was a huge boon for the President's public image. The trip ended with the Shanghai Communique, a joint statement from China and the U.S. that pledged to improve relations between the countries and maintained that Taiwan was part of China, a diplomatic sticking point. At the close of the journey, Nixon crowed, "This was the week that changed the world." (See TIME's 1972 Cover Story "Richard Nixon's Long March to Shanghai...