Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then did Ronald Reagan, who has spent much of his adult life refining the notion of America as arsenal of the free world, journey to the sun-dappled campus nuclear Eureka College, his Illinois alma mater, to sound the call for nuclear restraint...
...daybreak in Ushuaia I was put on a 44-seat air force Fokker turboprop for a mail flight to the coastal bases of Rio Grande and Rio Gallegos. It was the first leg of a three-flight, twelve-hour journey in custody. It was also an edgy and unpleasant experience. My bags were "searched" twice, that being the kindest term for the hostile way in which personal contents can be scornfully tossed, spilled and made to seem like bits of compromising evidence all their own. Why was a "distinguished" American journalist carrying a duffel bag? Why were his shirts rumpled...
...beloved homeland, which last week was the scene of new national unrest? Even as Pope John Paul II and his entourage were preparing for this week's pastoral tour of Fatima and other Portuguese cities, they were reassessing the risks and opportunities of the politically sensitive journey to England later this month and a possible pilgrimage to Poland in August...
...that was on a trip inside the U.S. On a foreign journey, the presidential panoply goes beyond the merely awesome. Preparations take months. Scarcely had Reagan returned to Washington last week from a five-day "working vacation" in Jamaica and Barbados before a party of presidential aides headed by Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver took off for Europe to lay the groundwork for a Reagan trip in June. En route, Deaver denounced as "ridiculous" estimates that the Caribbean trip had cost the taxpayers $5 million, but gave no figure of his own. The White House does estimate that more...
...inestimably uncomfortable writing about religion in these pages: it is as close to a taboo subject as there is in this community. But Boff describes Jesus at one place as the "omega point" of evolution--a goal to be aimed at, though not achieved. I don't know; my journey is only recently begun in earnest and may yet be sidetracked or derailed. But if Graham's eloquent example proves nothing else, it is that such a goal must at least be considered...