Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross Sea about March 9. If he crosses Antarctica from sea to sea, he will have accomplished what the great explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton called the "last grand land journey left...
Good Road. Last week, as he boarded a London-bound plane at Nicosia airport, Sir Hugh was cautious about the success of-the bridge building. "On our journey to the Promised Land," said he, "we are not yet at the Jordan. We are just about at the Red Sea. Our task must be to find a good road toward an eventual settlement...
With the country safely confided to hands he could trust, Strongman Sarit announced that he will journey to the U.S. this month for 1) examination and treatment of his liver at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, and 2) a call on President Eisenhower...
...looking like a Chinese laundry after a hurricane," with assorted litter peppering the snow. But getting around the Antarctic by land is still quite a trick. Last week New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, arrived at the South Pole after a 1,200-mile journey by tractor from the British base at Scott Station on the Ross Sea (see map). He made it with only one drum of gasoline left, enough for 20 miles of travel...
...witness journalism, ran Correspondent Noel Barber's breathless dispatch: "I have reached the South Pole. I am the sixth Briton in history to do so, the first for 45 years since Scott's party of five reached here in 1912, only to perish on the return journey...