Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson then took off on what he called "a sentimental journey" to West Berlin, where in the early '50s he was married to his wife Keke while serving as a young Foreign Service officer. In Bonn, he talked with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for two hours and pleased West German leaders by faulting Carter for failing to consult European allies more often...
...indeed a photogenic journey, studded with fluttering tricolor bunting, fireworks displays and stirring military reviews. Accompanied by his attractive wife Anne-Aymone, Giscard purposely passed up such major cities as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich in order to tour what he called l'Allemagne profonde (Germany in depth). His stops included Baden-Baden, Kassel, Würzburg and Lübeck, all towns with populations under 230,000. He also made an unscheduled visit to Koblenz, 40 miles south of Bonn, where he was born in 1926; his father was a civilian official with French forces occupying the Rhineland. Often...
Those were only two emotional events in a twelve-day, 9,000-mile journey with an exhausting itinerary that took the Pope all over Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic nation. The papal plane touched down at Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil, where the Pope marked out one of his major themes by offering President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo a sermon on social justice. The tour's pitch rose in Belo Horizonte, the nation's third largest city. Youths cheered wildly and chanted, "The Pope is our king!" John Paul spoke movingly to them...
...Since Lance wrote the cover story on the Declaration of Independence for TIME'S Bicentennial issue and on the Bill of Rights for our follow-up issue a year later, he seemed the inescapable choice for this journey into history. He was there...
...cross-country journey in search of enlightenment is a nonfiction standard. It would take a work of striking originality to break from the pack of aging hippies and victims of mid-life's critical list. This is the work. Nearing 40, with a mother dying of cancer and a marriage "childless and knee-deep in ruin," Bill Barich attempted an "escape into orderliness." He was to find an idea of order at New York and California race tracks, where winners and losers are clearly labeled and bloodlines still count. If Laughing in the Hills were only about horses...