Word: jaunting
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...quite so big a deal as Clinton had hoped. Symbolism was the object of much of his European jaunt, which after Latvia continued through Poland and Italy for the weekend summit meeting of the Group of Seven major industrial powers in Naples, and is to conclude this week with two days in Germany. But though the President once again showed a talent for thoughtful speeches to foreign parliaments and Reaganesque photo ops, he could never quite get Americans' minds -- or his own mind -- off his manifold problems elsewhere. In U.S. headlines and on TV newscasts, his efforts were upstaged...
...three-day jaunt to an isolated military factory city, where my traveling companion initiated a multimillion-dollar weapons-system purchase, shows how the system operates. Only a promise of confidentiality precludes revealing exactly what weapons were for sale...
...kind of academic "lumbering dinosaur" -- the author's modest self-appraisal -- that might have sent its subject to his typewriter harrumphing with dismay. Wreszin dutifully portrays the man and his times but too often paraphrases rather than quotes directly from a writer whose style was the essence of jaunt and spark. (In fairness, Wreszin does have the good sense to cite Macdonald's lead of a New Yorker profile: "The Ford Foundation is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some...
Normascope: Norma survived reading period, exams, even some major cosmetic surgery. She recommends a little jaunt out of town...
...Lasher, Rice picks up the narrative thread left hanging at the end of The Witching Hour. At the end of The Witching Hour, Rice situates the reader in present-day New Orleans after a global jaunt through time tracking the incestuous Mayfair family of witches from their roots in Scotland to the powerful, respected family living in modern day New Orleans. In the opening chapters of Lasher, the heir to the Mayfair throne--Rowan Mayfair--has been spirited away from New Orleans by the demon Lasher. The whole of the novel is then taken up in the relentless pursuit...