Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusing proliferation of domestic programs-he had 49 of them over to the White House for a day of discussions and socializing. After a black-tie dinner with them, the President, still in his dinner jacket, choppered over to Dulles International Airport to set out on his long westward journey...
...cigarette, and I think, 'If I were fighting here, where would 1 have dragged a wounded man? Over behind that big rock.' So I detect there. Or I figure, 'If the troops left New Hope Church one day and their destination was a day's journey, where would they likely have camped?' So I go to that spot and take the detector. I usually have pretty good luck...
...before (34 objects toured the U.S. in 1961-62), their Parisian trip was arranged with unprecedented showmanship by that esthetic Barnum. Culture Minister André Malraux. After first viewing a roomful of statuary entitled "The Theban Cradle of the Child King," the visitor accompanies the boy on his twilight journey from death and burial to resurrection and fusion with Osiris, god of the dead. In a dimly lit Salle Royale hung with blue velvet, glows the gold funeral chair, with its big-horned sacred cows for armrests, that was made to carry Tut on his postmortal trip. The room also...
...would seem to move slowly across the sky, providing daylight for about 88 days. Then it would set, bringing on a night of the same duration. It remained for a Cornell University graduate astronomy student, Steven Soter, 23, to point out that the sun's otherwise dull journey across Mercury's sky is enlivened by a solar variety of the hesitation step...
...skies. Then, as Mercury picked up even more speed, whipped past its point of closest approach to the sun, and began to slow down as it receded farther out into space again, the sun would appear to move backward toward the east, stop again, and then resume its journey for the remainder...