Word: journeyer
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...work nonetheless had not brought him the renown of his older brother V.S. Naipaul; of a heart attack; in London. His richly detailed, harshly scornful observations of the turmoil and shortcomings of many Third World nations, contained in half a dozen novels and travelogues, including North of South (1978), Journey to Nowhere (1980) and Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), reflected his own postcolonial rootlessness and search for identity...
...miles of its surface on Jan. 24. Voyager's odyssey will not end there. Accelerated to 45,000 m.p.h. and rerouted by Uranian gravity, it will soar still farther away from the sun, encounter Neptune in 1989, then head out of the solar system on an endless journey to the stars...
...fares have encouraged people to take excursions they would not have thought about in the past: a weekend jaunt to Florida, a crosscountry journey to a grandchild's graduation or a day trip to one of State U.'s road games. Buddy Yorke, a construction worker in Flagler Beach, Fla., has since August made four trips on People from Jacksonville to Newark to visit friends in nearby Roselle, N.J., where he grew up. Each time, he then flew from Newark to Buffalo on People to visit his girlfriend. Says Yorke: "I wasn't an avid traveler...
...week and with a host of problems awaiting action, Mulroney and his advisers had driven the half-hour north from Ottawa for an agonizing reappraisal of where the government was, where it should go and even, as it began its second full year in office, who would make the journey...
...that the combatants were using tanks, artillery and even jet fighters. Other reports told of the explosion of an ammunition dump and of air-force bombing runs on Aden's airport and harbor, as rebel troops advanced on the presidential palace. On Friday, the royal yacht Britannia interrupted a journey to New Zealand to help evacuate foreigners. Small boats transported about 300 people to the ship before fierce fighting halted the rescue operation...