Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told how he got to Rome to be elected Pope. Having given away all his money to the poor of Venice, he applied to the Catholic banks for a travel loan, but was turned down as a poor risk. Finally a Jewish admirer lent him the money for the journey, but Cardinal-Patriarch Sarto was so certain he would not be elected Pope that he bought a round-trip ticket. When he died he wrote in his will: "I was born poor. I lived poor most of my life. I wish to die poor...
...sounded: it was impossible for Yuthok to return to Lhasa with his London-length hair. But the envoy was not worried. "A Tibetan order doesn't have the same sense of immediacy as a Western order," he explained. It would take "several months" to prepare for the journey home, several more to wait for the Himalayan spring thaws. By that time Yuthok's hair would again be respectably long-and perhaps Tibet might still be waiting for the Communist blow to fall...
...hungry refugees over more than 100 miles of plains and mountain wilderness between Kan-chaung, Burma and Silchar, India will remind readers, as it does Elephant Bill himself, of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps. But Williams keeps his voice at a modest pitch even when reciting this journey's most spectacular feat, i.e., leading his charges across a 3-ft.-wide ledge hundreds of feet high. Says he: "I learned more about what elephants could be got to do in that one day than I had in 24 years...
...Pearl Buck called in a doctor; next day she called in more. "Then began that long journey which parents of such children know so well . . . We take our children over the surface of the whole earth, seeking the one who can heal. We spend all the money we have and we borrow until there is no one else to lend. We go to doctors good and bad, to anyone, for only a wisp of hope...
...JOURNEY INTO THE SELF: BEING THE LETTERS, PAPERS AND JOURNALS OF LEO STEIN (331 pp.)-Edited by Edmund Fuller-Crown...