Word: journeyer
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There they have their first contact with the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS), which helps with adjustment to immediate problems of life in the West and guides the immigrants on the further stages of the journey. HIAS also provides any necessary financial assistance...
Such pointillistic touches make Island Journey different from autobiography or nature writing. Though she sometimes takes herself a mite too seriously, Arthur gives an uncanny account of what her experience felt like. At her best, she can make a strange, unfamiliar setting provoke shocks of recognition...
Boston celebrated its 350th birthday Saturday night at the biggest ball in town while Boston College staged a jubilee of its own. The Eagles soared past Stanford, 30-13, in the visitors' first journey to Beantown since 1931. No one will remember the Pac Ten gridders forgettable performance for another 50 years, but another Stanford show on the turf--that of the Stanford Band--might linger for a long time...
...losing Cardinals did not seem to affect the band's performance--and vice versa--but the band successfully won the attention of the bleacher crowds. Doucette said that the 3000-mile journey was worth it "to show the people in Boston how to have a good time." Band leader Steve Pappas--a ringer for Roger Daltry--seemed to be doing just that. His long bleached curls flopped up and down for two hours, as much a part of the show as the human redwood trees that danced around the musicians...
...wonder the westerners weren't watching the field. Instead their attention focused on the reunion among undergrads after a long summer (classes don't start until October 1) and among graduates after years. Several thousand miles and 49 years later, was the Cardinal's journey in vain? The band would say no; they showed Boston that no matter who wins the game, a jubilee is anybody's ball...