Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That freedom could be savored for only a moment. After a journey to meet with Asian mystics in India and Ceylon, death came in Bangkok, where Merton, padding about in his room, was electrocuted by a faulty fan. The words- and they were a torrent within that vow of silence - are undying...
Kissinger has pondered Bismarck's observation during his own journey through the corridors of world power. Not surprisingly, he has formed some ideas about leadership, ones that could help measure the men running for President...
...able to make the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca. Day after day they waited for buses to meet them at the Allenby Bridge spanning the Jordan River, the boundary between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to begin their 18-hour overland journey to the holy sites in Saudi Arabia. Finally, on the tenth day of their vigil, the first of 125 dusty vehicles rolled into view. War or no war, the hajj would...
...gave new meaning to the phrase "no-frills flying." Jaromir Wagner, a 41-year-old West German car dealer, risked his life on a twelve-day, seven-stop journey from his homeland to the U.S.-without heat, seat, coffee, tea or milk. For the sake of what he called "the thrill" and at a cost of $325,000, Wagner made the trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact...
...extraordinary journey, surmounting all barriers of space and time. The pilot-guide does not pause to question such miracles. Nor does he stint on bold speculation. Passing one planet, he muses, "Intelligent beings may have evolved and reworked this planetary surface in some massive engineering enterprise." Finally returning to the vicinity of home, he talks of "a single, ordinary, yellow dwarf star surrounded by a system of nine planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids and billions of comets?the family of our sun." He fantasizes about large, tenuous life forms in the stormy atmosphere of Jupiter and about small...