Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weather permitting, the flyers will leave Bedford Airport at 7 a.m. tomorrow. They will use a Stinson three-place, a Stinson four-place, a two-place Aronca Chief, and two two-place Aronica champions for the one hundred mile journey. Members of the Smith Flying Club will welcome them on their expected 8 a.m. Northampton arrival...
When the Japanese invasion drew nearer, Ai Wei-teh shepherded more than 100 homeless children on foot to a representative of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's, a 27-day journey away. But Gladys Aylward has no memory of their safe arrival. She collapsed from exhaustion just before the end, and was taken delirious to a hospital. This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England...
Capetown's anti-government Cape Argus sputtered indignantly over Klerksdorp's "incredible apostles of apartheid," derided their ban against "mixed traveling on man's last journey" as "departheid." Cried the Cape Argus...
Today the men of Princeton swarm into Cambridge, free from Lenin Lenapes, from mosquitoes, from mossbunkers. Be kind to them as they journey to the land of Hague to the land of Curley, remembering after the game the words of the poet...
...Segars Mill in the low country, the Segars clan performed the annual ritual of closing down the grist mill and padlocking the general store. As Clemson folks, they looked askance at other pilgrims making the journey to the state capital at Columbia; there was no telling who might be a Carolina sympathizer. There had been friction between the two factions since the day Pitchfork Ben Tillman, the state's rip-snorting governor of the 1890s, branded the university as a center of snobbery and helped found Clemson, a "heman" agricultural college with a strong emphasis on military training...