Word: jaunted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Halaby's scoring jaunt was the longest since his brother Sam ran 84 yards for a touchdown against Brown in 1958. Another historical note: the Crimson's win was its first over Cornell in the Stadium since...
Lincoln & the Americans. Before taking over the governorship in 1955, Quadros made his first trip outside Latin America, a holiday jaunt to Europe and the U.S. with Eloá and his daughter Tutu. In Europe, he fell in love with London ("a man's town"). The U.S. was not so endearing. At New York's Idlewild Airport he had a raging two-hour argument over a lost vaccination certificate; he detested Manhattan's bitter January cold, despite all that U.S. friends such as Nelson Rockefeller could do to thaw him out. He went to Washington...
Results of the six-day jaunt into Virginia and Maryland indicate that although the Crimson is off to a slow start, it should be able to start winning and not have a losing season like last year...
...into their 20s, and often beyond. But this year the perennial stars are being run into the boards by a Canadian high school senior: 17-year-old Bruce Kidd, the neighborhood newsboy back home in Toronto, who can cruise through the three-mile grind as though it were a jaunt to the corner soda shop...
What Waugh offers in his current jottings of his African jaunt, mainly in Kenya, Tanganyika and the Rhodesias, is really a novelist's notebook, full of swiftly sketched scenes and characters who. not surprisingly, speak like people in Waugh fiction. There are astute little studies of key figures in African history, including Cecil Rhodes, an empire builder for whose financial chicanery and ''Anglo-Saxon'' racialism Waugh expresses intense distaste, and the tragic Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. for whom he has intense admiration. And there is a truly Waugh-like figure. "Bishop" Homer...