Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away August without doing any effective campaigning. Thomases and campaign manager David Wilhelm pushed the idea of the bus tours; Clinton seized on it quickly as a means of building on the convention momentum and furthering his penchant for unconventional campaigning. Plans for the first tour, a six-day jaunt from New York City to St. Louis, Missouri, were being drawn even before the convention...
Duffy's uncharacteristic jaunt into the world of Irish politics was fueled in small part by her own Irish extraction and in larger part by Robinson's impressive reputation. "Feminists I was interested in talked about how terrific Robinson was," she says. "Nothing in our talks changed that impression...
...activity extremely awkward and quickly exhausting. Astronauts have found that their hands chafe sorely, particularly the fingertips, which can be rubbed so raw that the deltas, whorls and ridges of their fingerprints disappear. But the Endeavour crew accomplished its spectacular mission and, just for the record, completed a fourth jaunt in space before preparing for their scheduled return home...
...some road-trippin' to do. New England does not yet have a World League team, so the closet place to see the action is nearby Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Then, in early summer, it's World Bowl Weekend in Montreal, just a six hour jaunt up north...
...nonchalant exploration of Nicaragua at the end of its civil war. The book does not attempt to relate the experiences of the war-torn citizens of Managua, but Maushard does succeed within his limited scope--he gives a superb fresh-out-of-college journalist's depiction of his jaunt through North America's most bitter war zone...