Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholar of sorts, Barton found the letters too pat to be credible. But when he met Minor in Los Angeles, his doubts were undermined by her charm. Lonely after the death of his wife, Barton, while on his train journey home, wrote a warm letter inviting her to visit him in Foxboro, Mass., and to "come and sleep under my pines and see my Lincoln material and swim in my little lake." He added: "Tell your mother I made love to you and hope to do it again...
...move is a sentimental journey for Kinsley. A Rhodes scholar, he was a student at Harvard Law School in 1976 when New Republic Owner Martin Peretz named him managing editor. Among Kinsley's duties was editing TRB. He gave up editing in 1981 because he "preferred writing," but within six months he took the Harper's post "because it looked like a great job." Says Peretz: "Michael believes in institutions, and TRB is an institution...
...Jamaica; he just does not like combing and fussing with his hair. "I'm very accustomed to doing what I want to," he says. So he will continue his walking, and if police arrest him under a new law, he is prepared to take the necessary legal journey back to the Supreme Court...
...NCAA tournament which starts Saturday is made up of 16 teams selected from colleges across the country. Harvard was picked for the northeast region bid after beating Yale, the second ranked team, last month Eight members of Harvard's team will make the southward journey...
...reminded him that when they became airborne the cigar would be extremely dangerous. He scrambled down, flung the butt on the airstrip, and stamped on it. One evening in France he and [his secretary] Eddie Marsh were driving to his chateau in a Rolls-Royce. It was a trying journey, as Marsh described it in his diary: 'First a tyre burst with one of those loud bursts which make one think one has been assassinated-and then ... Winston gave a wrong direction, left instead of right, at a crossroad.' The chauffeur protested, Churchill abruptly...