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Word: sojourn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is your bag, the chances are that during your four-year sojourn at Harvard you will be tempted to call for help...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerney, | Title: Should You See Your Local Shrink? | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...Yale victory raised its record to 14-0 and returned the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League crown to New Haven, after a one-year sojourn at West Point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Overwhelm Swimming Team By 65-30 Score | 3/6/1967 | See Source »

...keynote theme from Lincoln: "We must ask 'where we are and whither we are tending.'" Indeed, until Johnson actually began to speak, almost no one had any notion whither he would tend. Newsmen got no hint of the President's plans during his long, sequestered sojourn at the L.B.J. ranch. At the White House, security precautions were so rigid that reporters were barricaded out of hearing range of the typing pool so that they could not eavesdrop on secretaries proofreading the speech aloud. Johnson held his options open until the eleventh hour, ordering innumerable page-by-page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Cautious, Candid & Conciliatory | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Lolling at the bar of Washington's Congressional Hotel last week, Adam Clayton Powell looked the very picture of cavalier confidence. Back from a two-month sojourn with his comely receptionist on the Bahamian isle of South Bimini, the Harlem Democrat bragged of his angling prowess. "Are you worried?" asked a reporter. Replied Powell: "Do I look it?" What would he say to the Democratic caucus? "I'm going to tell them," he purred, "to keep the faith, baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Keeping the Faith | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

BRITTEN: CURLEW RIVER (London). On a sojourn to the Orient in 1956, the composer was delighted by Japanese No plays, and one of them, Sumidagawa, is the inspiration for this one-act opera. It tells of a madwoman searching for her son, and her encounter with a boatman who explains his tragic death and shows her where he is buried. Scored for five male soloists, a chorus of nine and an orchestra of seven, Curlew River is a fragile work indeed, more tone poem than opera. Yet in a sedate, masquelike way, it has considerable melodic charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 9, 1966 | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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