Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK CITY, July 30--Mayor Robert F. Wagner will journey to Washington this week-end to request federal aid for Harlem's negro poulation. This announcement was made today at the conclusion of the mayor's extensive talks here with the Reverend Martin Luther King...
...watch in Washington these days, when it comes to economy and economics, is a balding, moonfaced fellow with few of the outward trappings of power. Each day last week, he strode briskly on the three-minute journey from his office in the Executive Building to Lyndon Johnson's office, where he and the President held earnest conversations; Johnson also telephoned him from the presidential jet en route to Texas. At week's end, when Johnson announced a lower 1964 deficit and a greater budget cut than earlier estimates, there was, typically, no sign...
...with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward, and he beats her every round except the inevitable last one. And, capering defiantly toward the lobotomist's knife, he pipes the other inmates toward self-respect, a service they resent all the more because the journey terrifies them...
...function. As the camel is cooled by its evaporating sweat, it can lose up to 30% of its total body weight without harm because the water content in the blood plasma stays close to normal, permitting the blood to circulate freely. Camels loping in after a two-week journey across the sands are often in an extremely desiccated condition; once the thirsty animals reach water they may drink as much as 30 gallons in ten minutes. As they take in the water, the red cells in their bloodstream swell to as much as 240% of their normal size. In other...
Although his valet, Miles, was among the wedding guests, none of Ambler's family was present. He had explained that his 68-year-old mother was too aged and frail to make the journey. The groom's uncle, Norman Ambler, who breeds dogs at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera and was also uninvited, scoffed at the story. He described his sister-in-law as spry and active, but added, "However, she is something of a religious fanatic-she is liable to start quoting the Scriptures at everyone. That may be one of the reasons John...