Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little else but bread and water, yet kept his sea legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came to a saddening landfall: though within sight of Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting...
...rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams wantonness, Josie is wildly in love with Landlord Jim Tyrone Jr., a dead soul embalmed in alcohol. Tyrone is, of course, another portrayal of O'Neill's elder brother who also appears in Long Day's Journey Into Night...
ONCE again the crackle of gunfire. Once again the long journey home, the hushed procession, the lowered flags and harrowed faces of a nation in grief. Once again the simple question...
...four-hour journey took eight hours. In one small town along the tracks, Colonia, family held up a bedsheet with the words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...
Observations and Reflections (of Hester Lynch Piozzi) Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy and Germany, Herbert Barrows...