Word: junketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breaking Backs. The teachers insist that they are technically not striking, which they are forbidden to do by Florida law. Instead they have resigned-a maneuver that happens to violate the terms of their contract. At midweek, Kirk abandoned a politicking junket in the West, flew home to try to resolve the crisis. His first effort-a pleading back-to-work speech addressed to teachers assembled in Miami's Marine Stadium-ended in failure. Irked by the crowd's hostility, Kirk urged them to "get together with one good rousing boo" for the Governor-and drew only...
...hopping 22,600 miles to nine African capitals in eleven days is a junket to curdle the courage of the strong. But Hubert H. Humphrey possesses a special brand of fortitude. Last week, as his vice-presidential safari winged wearily across Africa from mishap to minor disaster, the indefatigable Humphrey averaged less than four hours' sleep a night and, seemingly impervious to a steam-heated climate, came up triumphantly talking at each stop. Africans heard his voice even as he flew overhead in Air Force Two. To soothe nations miffed because they were left out of his tour, Humphrey...
...great educative experiences in the Peace Corps is that of being faced with impossible tasks. It should be understood that the Peace Corps is no exotic junket, made socially defensible by primarily physical strenuousness. What it does do is put people into positions of awesome and complicated responsibility...
...Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) is running for President of the United States. Although no formal announcement was forthcoming, the clear message of McCarthy's political junket to New England and the Midwest last weekend was that the Senator is a candidate. His public statements all but acknowledged his candidacy, and his private remarks left no question...
...staffer spends the day turning out scripts for the BBC; another writes syllabuses for grammar school courses; John Dyson, a department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn's greatest comic invention is to take a horde of thirsty European journalists on a boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward a destination never reached, they consume more and more tree booze, "compliments of Magic Carpet." By the time of the denouement in Ljubljana, ?5,000 worth of liquid hospitality has been consumed. While they drink, Frayn mocks but does...