Word: jaunting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...image. His nation bestowed on him the Medal of Honor and 20 other decorations for gallantry and extraordinary valor, and he received similar decorations from many other countries. Yet he seldom wore a medal, and he could stand midst a troop of ribbon-festooned heroes and, by the jaunt of his corncob pipe or the tilt of his old but gold-glittering garrison cap, appear positively Olympian. His orations often seemed florid. Yet he could be succinct and moving when the occasion demanded. In early 1942, he was ordered to leave beleaguered Corregidor before it fell to the Japanese...
...Cliffies who are forced, either by academic necessity or by lack of travel funds, to vaction in Cambridge must move into one dorm and pay $10 for the privilege. "A security consideration," says Radcliffe brass. Yet University police don't take off the week for a Bermuda jaunt. And most head residents stay in Cambridge anyway. We're all for keeping the girls safe over term-break. But why uproot them so? And why that...
Affair begins, for instance, with a New York drama critic on a summer jaunt to Europe. As if by magic, Paris customs men switch his raincoat for one belonging to another tourist. The critic finds its lining contains ten-count 'em-ten $10,000 bills. To no one's surprise, the critic turns out to be a former foreign correspondent who can order breakfast in at least six foreign languages and-what else?-a onetime OSS man in World War II. In no time at all he is up to his tweed lapels in a fell and fancy...
...first mile in last week's IC4A race, pacing even Villanova's Vic Zwolak, who went to to win. Hewlett faded to eleventh toward the end of the five-mile course, but in East Lansing, Mich., today the Big Three champ faces only a four mile jaunt...
...usual mighty scowl plastered across his face, World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, 29, arrived in Norway on a barnstorming jaunt through Scandinavia, but the 25,000 fans who paid their way in to watch him spar made Listen sunny. Even the news that his proposed fight this week with showy but second-rate German Heavyweight Uli Ritter was off could not dampen his spirits. He hied himself to a Swedish bastu (steam bath) and had himself steamed and scourged with branches until he was his jovially ferocious self again...