Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been fortunate that former Astronaut Jack Swigert, 51, has once before survived the icy chill of near tragedy. On his 1970 Apollo 13 journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have...
...Updike's virtues is his prolificity; he has produced enough books to fuel arguments of all kinds.) Judith Jones, his editor at Knopf, thinks A Month of Sundays one of his best, precisely because it was written "during the darkest part of Updike's personal journey; it came out of his depressed feelings about the world at the time...
Steve's of Somerville wasn't just an ice cream shop. It was a Fine Institution. "History was made, served and spooned there," a 1981 Time cover story noted. Steve Herrel and his merry band of ice cream makers made your journey worth while, bestowing upon you succulent flavors and tasty...
...dark and gruesome in Jackson's journey through a night and day in the big city. The music itself is for the most part an upbeat and cheerful combination of Puerto Rican salsa rhythms, Jackson's jazzy piano overdubs, and some xylophone riffs like the catchy jingle that percussionist Sue Hadjopoulos repeats throughout the hit single "Steppin...
...were returning to normal, which was a mixed blessing. When the strike began, for example, the Spirit of California was in the middle of its run between Sacramento and Los Angeles. The train stopped abruptly in Oakland and discharged its passengers. Many travelers hopped on buses to complete their journey, but their fury soon abated: they pulled into Los Angeles a full hour before the tram had been scheduled to arrive in the first place...