Word: sojourn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high point of her Thai sojourn, an occasion that brought together two of the world's best-dressed women, was a royal dinner for 180 given by King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Jackie wore a long white evening gown elaborately stitched in gold, the beautiful queen a traditional gown of Thai embroidered silk in yellow with a matching sabai, or stole. After dinner, the King and Queen suggested that they take a little walk. Knowing that Jackie particularly wanted to see the temple of the Emerald Buddha, the King had ordered the whole palace and temple grounds illuminated. Lights...
...extended tropical sojourn appears to have generated other useful or once useful adaptations more frequently found in dark-skinned peoples. A hereditary blood condition known as the sickle-cell trait, which grants resistance to certain types of malaria, is only now beginning to wane among U.S. Negroes, who no longer have any need of it. The Negro's woolly black hair once provided insulation against the heat of the blazing tropical sun; his thick lips, by exposing more mucous membrane, may have increased the body's evaporative cooling powers in torrid climates; his characteristically long legs and lean...
...disobedience must face up to the fact that persons who have committed it in the past have not all been eccentric nuts, but have often been clearly vandicated by time. Socrates is one example; he chose to die in behalf of free speech. Gandhi is another; it was his sojourn in South Africa in the 1890's that led him to civil disobedience and arrest, and to the formulation of his theories of non-violent action (ahimsa and satyagraha). He took the view that every citizen is responsible for every act of his government. A new book on General Billy...
...only one of the handicaps Adler has faced over the years. In 1949, after he was accused of being a Communist sympathizer, he went into professional exile from the U.S., making London his concert, TV and recording base as well as his home.* Except for a year-long sojourn in 1959, he has returned only for occasional engagements since...
...Chevreuse near Paris. There the duke is most at home, working alongside three professional gardeners among his flowers or walking his pugs in the countryside. In February or March, the Windsors sail for New York, where they rent an apartment in the Waldorf Towers. Part of their U.S. sojourn is spent in lending their immense prestige to charity balls and functions in New York, part in Florida in the homes of old friends who have often given the balls...