Word: journeyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviets when they boycotted the Summer Games, has become a national phenomenon, provoking an outpouring of good feeling for community and country. Flown to the U.S. in miner's lamps from Greece, the Olympic flame is being carried on a serpentine 82-day, 8,700-mile journey through 33 states to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The runners include more than 200 regulars (a team of experienced amateur runners sponsored by A T & T who form the core of the relay) and 3,500 local torchbearers who have raised or donated $3,000 for the privilege...
...sort of sentimental journey most tourists can only dream of: the successful American's triumphal visit to the land from which obscure forebears set out for the New World generations ago. And so Ronald Reagan's four-day visit to Ireland was carefully planned as a kind of televised wish fulfillment, especially on Sunday in the village of Bally-poreen (pop. 350). There the President was scheduled to pray in the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, look up in the baptismal book the record of Great-Grandfather Michael's baptism on Sept...
...NATO foreign ministers and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens to the U.S. last week produced genuine accommodation between Washington and its major allies. The possibility of some arrangement with an important adversary arose too, as Secretary of State George Shultz took off with no advance fanfare on a journey to Nicaragua, then proceeded on to Galway to brief the President (see WORLD...
Another daily described the forthcoming event as a "venture to the exterior." The excitement was caused by Prime Minister P.W. Botha's 16-day trip to Western Eu rope, the most ambitious journey under taken by a South African leader in almost 40 years. The purpose of the trip, which is taking Botha to Portugal, Switzerland, Britain, West Germany, Belgium, France, Austria and perhaps Italy: to move South Africa a bit further from the limbo to which its apartheid policies have condemned it for the past generation...
...journey came to a halt when a mudslide trapped the bus he was traveling in and killed eight people in the bus traveling just a few miles ahead of them. The groups spent 36 hours excavating the bus and then carried the bodies back. But after arriving in his room, Adams was prevented from sleeping by an earthquake. "I had never been in an earthquake before," he says. In yet another adventure with nature. Adams was trapped in a small village for two weeks by a mudslide that cut him off from the only road in and out of town...