Word: journeyer
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Over the next ten years, he undertook the quixotic journey that would make him famous, under a new name and an altered identity. The first step was to tell his appalled parents that he wanted to be a writer; the next was to become one. That proved harder. He took a cheap room in London and spent hours each day at his typewriter, tapping out the kind of story that began "Inside the park, the crocuses were out . . ." At night, he began "tramping," haunting the slums, occasionally taking a bed in lodginghouses for the destitute, hoping that his Etonian accent...
...mind. Suddenly Orwell and his colleagues-at-arms were being called fascists, Franco's hired killers, by the Communist papers in Spain and Europe. Purges and reprisals began in Barcelona. Released from the hospital, Orwell was forced into hiding and then out of the country. His journey from exhilaration to exile took six months...
There are other noteworthy aspects about the ninth shuttle flight. By the time Columbia lands on the California desert 144 orbits later on Dec. 7, it will have completed the longest shuttle journey, one day (and 400,000 miles) more than any previous flight. Columbia's six-man crew will be the largest to fly aboard the shuttle and will include the first non-American astronaut. But clearly the highlight of the trip will be the debut of the 33,252-lb. Spacelab. It represents the first real marriage of space engineering to fundamental scientific research in the manned...
Greyhound has also been hurt by deregulation of the airlines. Upstart short-haul carriers are now offering flights that are even cheaper than bus travel. While Greyhound charges $56.15 for a journey between Newark and Norfolk, for instance, a People Express ticket is just $23. Says Greyhound Spokeswoman Beth Meyer: "There was a time when that was one of our most heavily traveled routes. Now we've just about abandoned...
Both squads leave Cambridge tomorrow for qualifying meets. The men travel to Lehigh University in Pennsylvania for the IC4A's, while the women will journey up to Burlington, Vt:, to run in the Eastern Regionals on Saturday...