Word: journey
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This quandary has led some astronomers to suggest that the quasars' red shifts are caused by something other than their great distance. Perhaps the light is simply "tired" after its long journey and is arriving at a lower frequency. Or it might be "stretched" toward the red by the strong gravitational field of the quasar. Another possibility: maybe quasars have been exploded out of nearby galaxies at great velocities. Any of these explanations could leave the quasars near enough to the earth to account for their observed brightness, and at the same time give them their enormous red shifts...
...winning football team, neither fantasy nor reminiscence seems foolish. The game becomes a bond strong enough to unite, however temporarily, the disparate elements of an urban society. In Dallas and in Denver, where football is a passion, not a fancy, the trip to the Super Bowl is a municipal journey...
...rest are sadists, masochists, sneaks, morons, arrested adolescents, vile companions for a two-hour journey. Aldrich has shot them all in a harsh, flat light that matches his essentially pornographic spirit, and he has directed without nu ance, jerking the movie to fitful life with occasional shocks - a beating here, a mur der there, over in the corner some sick...
...those who deal in it, jade is a gamble. What leaves Burma seems mostly to be rocks, occasionally dotted with a tantalizing protrusion of green. When the rocks reach Thailand, after a journey of up to three days by truck, mule, boat and human porter, Chinese buyers guess how much jade, and what kind, may lie hidden beneath the drab surface of each stone. A skillful or lucky buyer can pay perhaps $5 per Ib. for rock that may yield thousands of dollars in jade...
...well, to James Tyrone, the actor-patriarch of Long Day's Journey into Night, whom O'Neill modeled on his own father. Con dwells on Wellington's praise of his combat heroics as Tyrone dwells on Edwin Booth's praise of his acting. Both men are united in a fear of the poverty of Ireland and a desire to conceal their peasant origins. Both loathe the modern currents of their times. Melody despises the Jacksonian rabble just as Tyrone reviles such (to him) modern playwrights as Strindberg and Ibsen...