Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bush got not one but two balloons and rode in one himself. He offered rides, but few delegates could summon the courage to accept. When South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler invited delegates on an early morning jog, Bush, taking his wife and boys along, ran farther in a separate jaunt and served breakfast afterward...
Evidence of this prehistoric jaunt was reported last week by U.S. geologists who had been excavating hillside sediments that were once part of the lake. The geological team, led by Kay Behrens-meyer and Leo LaPorte of the University of California at Santa Cruz, found seven footprints in a layer of sediment dated by radioactive clocks to be 1.5 million years old. All the prints apparently belonged to the same individual. One of them showed unmistakably that he, or perhaps she, had slipped while walking...
After describing Europe and Asia in his best-selling The Great Railway Bazaar, Theroux has moved his one man railway show into the western hemisphere. This time he chose the jaunt between Boston and Southern Argentina, once again via the tracks. In what would seem like a replay with just a change in geography, this book lacks the characters, scandals, tall tales and disasters that usually make this genre successful...
They won't travel much farther than Yale this year, but that's fine with the 18 cheerleaders. Even though the athletic department will only pay for one away game jaunt, they did find the funds to costume the squad in "Harvard major letter sweaters" (black sweaters with crimson and white official H's) and white skirts and crimson pleats. "It's a real traditional outfit," Coutu says enthusiastically, although she regrets that the athletic department could not find money to provide the squad with two outfits: one cool, one "wintry...
Worried more about achieving Eastern and NCAA cut-off times than about the quality of the competition it will encounter, Harvard's swimming team departs Friday for its semi-annual February southern jaunt...