Word: odyssey
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...civilians, too, among the former captives took hot showers to get ready for the last leg of their historic odyssey: the final flight home. After a reunion with their families in the seclusion of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., the liberated Americans were to be guests of the new Reagan Administration at a subdued ceremony at the White House this week. The families of the eight who died also will be honored...
...court to approve dismissal of drug charges against his client, Hazel Morrison, on the ground that federal narcotics agents had interfered with her right to counsel. Cucinotta argued the case in December, and it was decided last week. TIME Correspondent Evan Thomas followed the attorney's judicial odyssey to the end. His report...
That was puzzling because records indicated that the body had been wrapped in a sheet when it left Dallas. Also peculiar was the odyssey of the bronze casket...
...Trinh family's 10,000-mile odyssey from their home in Saigon to New York City has been both stormy and perilous. The seven Trinh brothers and sisters, who are ethnic Chinese, had secretly set sail from Saigon in April 1979 in a rickety fishing boat, with no more than a 50% chance of survival. Arriving on the coast of Malaysia one week later, the Trinhs first spent a year in a squalid refugee camp, then embarked for the U.S. last October. They arrived in New York City, where they were greeted by an uncle who lives in Queens...
Home. In a picaresque odyssey, a black Southern farmer is exiled from his bucolic birthright to a Northern city of torrid lures and abject nightmares. Guiding him safely back home is Playwright Samm-Art Williams, an imagistic poet of prose wedded to infectious humor...