Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kiss Goodbye. The bright yellow bus, with 46 pupils aboard, was bound for the elementary and high schools in nearby Prestonsburg. There was nothing unusual about the morning beyond cloudy skies, or about the bus and its journey. At about 7 o'clock Driver Jack Derossett, 27, started his usual route through the 75-family coal-mining town of Cow Creek, picked up his regular riders on schedule. Seconds before he was due, for example, James Goble, 12, John, 11, and Anna Laura, 9, the three children of Cow Creek Storekeeper James B. Goble, scooped up their books, kissed...
...Britain and New Zealand. Said bearded "Bunny" Fuchs: "We did what we set out to do." What he and his men had done was to cross hostile Antarctica, a 2,100-mile struggle through the world's worst terrain and weather, and complete the last great land journey left to the earth's explorers...
Since then, with interruptions caused by war with Egypt and lack of funds. Archaeologist Prausnitz. 34. has uncovered the floor of a large church, part of what used to be a busy port town, probably called Nea Come in the days of Emperor Constantine. Christians broke their journey there on the road from Tyre to Caesarea...
...floor as the devil, with a rolled-up sheet for a tail, and easily stole the show from Stanislaus' staid Adam and a sister's Eve. It was a pleasant middle-class childhood until Papa Joyce began dragging his brood on an alcoholic long day's journey into night...
...Fuchs nears his final decision, every man at the polar base, both American and British, will be thinking of Fuchs's countryman, Captain Robert Scott, who got to the Pole in 1912. He started back toward the Ross Sea-the same terrible journey Fuchs will have to make, and at the same terrible season-and was frozen to death with the last of his five-man party, in a nine-day blizzard...