Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Utah lay in waiting. The harbor was not smooth. U. S. newsgatherers following by launch were thoroughly seasick. The Utah sailed for Rio de Janeiro with the Hoovers installed in admiral's quarters, the same quarters that General Pershing occupied when the Utah brought his mission home from Peru's centenary celebration...
...Brazilian Navy, like the Peruvian, is U. S.-trained. Rear-Admiral Noble E. Erwin and other officers of the U. S. naval mission to Brazil were present to meet the Hoovers...
Inspired as he may be by his mission of bringing light into whatever intellectual shadows of doubt can be admitted to exist in and about the Yard, the Vagabond is of too sensitive a nature to remain long indifferent to popular sentiment. For some days he has been noticing a distinct lessening of the bond of sympathy between himself and the rest of the college, and yesterday he realized that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes...
...scholar happened to pass through Tun-Huang, and thus the largest collection of ancient manuscripts found in modern times came to the hands of Sir Aurel Stein and myself. When I reached Peking, I gave notice to the Chinese authorities of what I had left on the spot. A mission was sent and brought of Peking the rest of the manuscripts; a list of these was then published and I have been glad to see that, in spite of the haste with which I had proceeded, there was only one important text, a Manichaean treatise in Chinese, which had escaped...
...getting rid of him when he grew boring. Daphne, lotus-eater, was perhaps the most charming-that is, until she referred casually to the custom of her country that would require Odysseus' death as soon as she was with child by him. Before he could complete, however, his mission as chosen father, he escaped to the next island and succumbed to the charms of Circe (he later described her to Penelope as "a witch, rather distressing to look at"). Calypso, "a large female, beautifully proportioned." endured him longest-seven years-and not until their several children all showed...