Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first presidential journey outside Argentina, Perón had crossed the Andes for a six-day state visit with his old friend and fellow general. His purpose was to discuss with Ibañez, whom he helped elect last September, plans for closer economic and political relations between the two neighboring republics. He also hoped to found a Latin-American economic bloc strong enough to bargain evenly with U.S. commercial power, and to form the basis of the Argentine-dominated South American confederation he has long dreamed...
...course ahead are a doctor and patient, a family bathing, nurses drying a sheet before a fire, a good Samaritan carrying a patient across a bridge, and a shepherd with his flock. At the source of the stream a couple roams blissfully in the paradise they have found at journey's end. In its quiet mixture of suffering, hope and joy, the window is altogether appropriate to the hospital setting. The wet light that falls through the colored glass is suggestive less of tears than of cleansing rain...
This week Stevenson went to Washington for a tea party with fellow Democrats and a lunch with President Eisenhower. Early in March he will take off on a private citizen's journey round the world...
...book has no theme and no plot. It is a loosely chronological log of a year's journey into a wasteland of waters, in, over, and around which nature has run wild. Here and there is a condemnation of the world's race for riches, occasional criticisms of Whitehall, its taxes and its colonial policy, a warning of the growth of Indian influence along the African shore of the Indian Ocean, and a perceptible shudder at memories of a normal life in modern civilization. A.C.D. is looking for something. He says it is peace, reason, and security...
Varsity fencers journey to West Point today to cross swords with a powerful Army team in the opening match of the season...