Word: journeyer
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...collectors. Rather she was an ardent conservationist who had gone undercover to document the extent of illegal trade in endangered species between China and Taiwan and Hong Kong. For six weeks in 1990, under the sponsorship of the TRAFFIC division of the World Wildlife Fund, she took a risky journey through southeast China, following the movements of a complex underground network of hunters, smugglers, black marketeers, thugs and fishermen. While she never bought any animals, she found it necessary to hand out small bribes of $20, called red envelopes, just to meet the people with the wares, which included...
SUCH A LONG JOURNEY...
Such a Long Journey follows the daily life of one Gustad Noble, a decent, good-natured Zoroastrian living in Bombay during the early 1970s. At home, he is caught up in the feuds and conspiracies of apartment buildings everywhere. At work, he enjoys the rowdy camaraderie of his Zoroastrian friends, singing Roamin' in the Gloamin' in the bank canteen and entertaining one another with ribald tales...
...eight men in George Bush's war council, four were brought in directly or shoved along in their journey by Ford. Two others arrived at the fringes of power during Ford's brief tenure, and their talents were allowed full play in the meritocracy that Ford helped nurture...
...contrast to playing the national pastime for a full season in the cold weather of New England, the Harvard batsmen will play eleven games in eight days under the warm Florida sun. The journey South is an annual event for the baseball team, which traditionally ventures South before embarking on their Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League schedule...