Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wearing wet clothes washed in salt water, the men broke out in rashes and boils. With half of its fuel gone and only one-third of the trip completed, U-977 finally surfaced. Thereafter, except for a few anxious moments, the South Atlantic crossing was pretty much a pleasure jaunt, with the men spearing fish or taking surfboard exercise behind...
...workaday life in a three-room apartment, puts in four mornings a week transferring what he calls his "dreams" on to canvas, and spends the rest of his time listening to the radio or walking solemnly around Brussels. In five years he has taken only one trip: a short jaunt to Southern France. "There's nothing I want," he says. "If someone offered me $10 million, I'd take it, I suppose. But I don't want the money. I desire nothing known. Most of the time I'm just bored...
...lead with an impromptu play that brought the crowd roaring to its feet. Running interference for teammate Al Carmichael, Sears saw his teammate stopped after a ten-yard gain, yelled for a lateral, gathered the toss in and outraced the off-balance Bruins on a 60-yd. touchdown jaunt...
After spending a night in a St. Louis jail, Alben William Barkley Truitt, 18-year-old grandson of the Vice President, was released to continue his hitchhiking jaunt from a construction job in Alaska to Paducah, Ky. Police had picked him up on a downtown street carrying a loaded .32-cal. pistol. He had found the pistol, said Truitt, and was merely trying to sell it to buy food. The state refused to prosecute, on the grounds that Missouri law permits peaceful interstate travelers to be armed...
...wealthy man (half of his current show is already sold, at prices up to $30,000 a painting), he still rises at 6 each morning, puts in a full day sketching, painting, or just jotting down ideas. His pleasures are simple, a few dinners with friends, an occasional jaunt through southern France, and vacations at his seaside house in Normandy. Most of the time he can be found working at home, in a blue smock and sheepskin slippers...