Word: journeyings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stinging Taunts. Early in March each year, Meo tribesmen journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into...
...Queen's consuming passion, outside the Crown and her family, is horses. On a recent visit to the university city of Cambridge, she said: "I am so glad to be here. I have passed through so often on my journey to the Newmarket races." The Queen also referees bicycle polo, a game that Prince Philip devised and, popularized for their children. "Do hit it, Anne!" the Queen cries. Elizabeth likes to sit with Philip in the evenings and watch television-at Buckingham Palace, TV is specially piped in to eliminate the static caused by London's rush-hour...
...food and boats for the return voyage, and cut off all possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back to Crown Point was harrowing. The corn supply quickly ran out, and the Rangers, split into small hunting parties, were easy prey to the aroused Indians. At one point, faint with hunger, a detachment of Rangers found the bodies of comrades butchered by the Indians, and ate them...
Based on a "space cycle" by Swedish Poet Harry Martinson, Aniara proved to be a lengthy allegory about man's journey through life "in the spiritual void" that sucks him at last to his own destruction. The curtain rises on the interior of a spaceship dominated by the towering electronic brain, a mechanism so advanced that it is nearly human. Ranged in front of it as ghostlike silhouettes, the passengers chant a lament for the planet Doris (actually the Earth) they just left behind...
...Broken Journey. John Calvin was 27 and a thoroughly skilled philosopher-theologian on the July day in 1536 when he first arrived in Geneva-a tired, thin young man of middle height with a pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman...