Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as the news tickers told him that Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was missing in a cruel sea, Lyndon Johnson knew that he would journey halfway round the world to say goodbye if his trusted friend and ally were not found alive. Holt and Australia had stood firm with Johnson on Viet Nam, and Johnson led 300 aides and newsmen in four jetliners 10,200 miles to honor him. For the President, who was genuinely saddened, the trip was of course much more than a re spectful condolence call. In just a few days' time, he focused world...
Licking their wounds from their recent ego-deflating losses to Navy and Williams. Harvard's varsity basketball players journey (and it's a hell of a journey) to Durham, New Hampshire tonight to play what looks like a tough UNH quintet...
...JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND, by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. An intensely personal account of the author's experiences in one of Stalin's slave-labor camps...
...British-French supersonic Concorde 001 took its first trip last week, but the journey was only a matter of a mile at the Sud Aviation plant at Toulouse, France. With front wheels jacked up so that the 38-ft. tail structure could slip through the hangar doors, the graceful goose was towed to a suitable display area where this week some 800 airline officials and members of the press will get a look at the craft. If all goes according to plan, the 191-ft. prototype will take off on its maiden flight...
...National Assembly, he has proved a masterly orator, demolishing the opposition by a mixture of hard economic facts with wit and elegant phraseology. Twice this year he has displayed these same rhetorical talents on long TV interview programs, has made state visits to Austria and India and soon will journey to Iran. And every two weeks he invites the most important Gaullist Deputies to his office at the Hotel Matignon for strategy sessions, laying the foundation for the day when they will possibly be his to command. No one knows for certain in what direction Pompidou would take the Gaullists...