Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foolhardy provocation of its carnivorous neighbor; of a heart attack; in Helsinki. Born Johan August Hellsten, he changed his Swedish name to its Finnish equivalent before he entered politics, served twice as Finnish Premier (1918, 1944-46) before running for President. In 1955 he made his seventh official journey to the Kremlin1, negotiated a 20-year mutual defense pact, wangled a promise that Russia would withdraw from its Finnish naval base at Porkkala. Patriot Paasikivi's coldly realistic view of his country's situation: Finland "is too small and dangerously located to afford a foreign policy directed against...
Between Tsinan, an industrial city in the Chinese province of Shantung, and the Mississippi valley of the U.S.A. lie 8,000 miles, an ocean, half a continent-and an ideological infinity. One dark, rainswept night last week, two ex-G.I.s of the Korean war completed the long journey between those points. For Arlie Howard Pate, 25, the trip ended near Carbondale, Ill.; for Aaron P. Wilson, 24, it was over at Urania...
...been spent moving, traveling, changing places, knowing people in one school, in one town or in one group, or on one ship a little while, but soon never seeing most of them again," Langston Hughes writes in I Wonder as I Wander. The book, which he calls an autobiographical journey, describes Hughes' travellings from...
With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and journalists born around 1900. But Hughes' story is not much like those of such men as Stephen Spender, Louis Aragon, Louis Fischer, George/Orwell, and Arthur Koestler...
...Murrow presents The Secret Life of Danny Kaye, a 90-minute spectacular, depicting Comedian Kaye's 32,000-mile journey on behalf of the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund...