Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...materializes on her plate. They went to the grocery store together, one day after Hillary picked up Chelsea from school, to get peanut butter and cereal, only to find that they had insufficient cash and no checkbook. Lately the First Mom has been helping her daughter make the perilous journey from age 12 to 13 in a new city without the close-knit extended family and friends of Little Rock. The elder Rodhams had stayed in the Governor's mansion with Chelsea when her parents were away, and the death of her grandfather added to the trauma of the move...
Hillary had her own perilous journey as she sat for over two weeks watching her father -- the gruff, authoritarian and inspiring Hugh Rodham -- slowly slip away. She comes from a family so bizarrely intact that the whole group went on the Clintons' honeymoon to Acapulco. The extended family had dinner together most weekends and played marathon games of Trivial Pursuit and Hungarian rummy, a card game so byzantine in its bylaws that only close friends or relatives can participate...
While each person spoke, it became increasingly difficult for me to hold back my tears. Fortunately, I was not alone and one of my former teammates place her reassuring arm around me. After the brief dedication, we filed into the hall to await the journey across the river for the scoreboard ceremony. Softball team members, past and present, gathered near the stairs to console each other. A book was passed around in which each of us wrote down our memories of Becky for her parents...
...Yalies viewed the future as "Stairway to Heaven, moving up through the clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain, the golden boy sat back in a car and inhaled carbon...
...early nineteenth century in English society were incredibly marginalized; they were looked upon as little more than kids, basically, who you had to patronize and tolerate. To some extent as a kid growing up in England that's how I felt. The other thing was, [Emily] made a journey to the Caribbean. When I left college, that's what I did. I think subconsciously those two facts keyed me into something about [Emily]...I didn't like what she thought, but I pitied her in her isolation...