Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over at the H.A.A. that morning some voices were raised against embarking on a journey which appeared so unlikely to result in a baseball game. But the counsels of higher officials prevailed. Their argument apparently went roughly as follows...
...fighting the war. Brand agreed with them. But the Germans promised a down payment of 100,000 living Jews, and he hoped he could keep negotiations dragging along until the approaching Allied victory closed all accounts. Thus, while the Nazis held his own family hostage, he made a desperate journey to neutral Turkey and the Middle East to get the negotiations started with Allied agents...
...able to play in the U.S. He has always had the technical equipment: the twelve-note span, the bravura style, the big percussive attack. But in preparation for his Moscow trip (which he says was revealed to him a year ago in a séance as a journey to "an agrarian country" where he would win a gold medal), Cliburn put in a grueling two months of six-to-eight-hours-a-day practice. During this period he may have sharpened some of the qualities that confounded Moscow critics: emotional nuances and inflections such as are normally heard only...
...tormented saga exalting without heroics or organ tones-or taking other than a dryly skeptical view of the traditional solace of religion. Taking adversity full face like a biting gust off his native fiords, the young hero of The Stars Grow Pale makes of his long day's journey into night a memorable voyage toward the inner light of selfdiscovery...
...last November Bernard Fagg, director of antiquities in Nigeria, paused on a cross-country journey to make a courtesy call on the Oni of Ife. The Oni, the Hon. Sir Adesoji Aderemi, King and spiritual leader of 4,500,000 Yoruba tribesmen, was delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed...