Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rose before dawn to walk the two miles to the main road, where she patiently waited for transport to her polling place. "This is our day." Seven hours later, she made her X next to the party of her choice. Voting, she said, as she rested after the long journey home, "is hard labor. But we have done our duty." On Saturday A.N.C. Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa confidently predicted a 60% landslide for his party...
...assignment for any reporter. In the case of South Africa, last week's unprecedented all-race voting created a united land out of bitterly divided fragments, and for Scott MacLeod, TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, it represented the high point of nearly five years of covering Nelson Mandela's journey from prisoner to President. "Most conflict stories we cover have tragic endings," observes MacLeod, "but what has made this a thrilling time to me is witnessing the remarkable determination here to heal divisions and achieve reconciliation...
...wondering how, just take a journey through the past two weeks...
...death was so unlike his life. Quiet, private, and dignified. After his stroke last week, Richard Milhous Nixon slipped into a deep coma and then, late last Friday, completed his journey to the hereafter. For a man who was responsible for the most serious governmental disgrace in the history of this land, the reaction to his passing was surprisingly sympathetic...
...film, directed by Brain Gibson, is a what-she-went-through-to get-where-she-is chronicle of the professional and personal life of the renowned star. It is a justifiably sympathetic portrayal of a talented woman's inner journey to find her strength of character. The screenplay which is based upon the autobiography I, Tina, traces Turner's rise to stardom through the partnership with her husband, Ike. The book explains how she survived Ike's abusive behavior using her belief in Buddhist spirituality, and recounts the circumstances that taught her to stand on her own both mentally...