Word: sojourn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of his sojourn upon earth, man built his houses, halls, castles and temples the way a child uses a set of building blocks-the walls support the roof. The age of the skyscraper demanded new methods and materials...
...number of students, probably members of the Young Students' Progressive League, continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace. As I stood on the Havana sidewalk marvelling at their perilous behavior, I wondered, "why don't American students demonstrate such courageous and determined political feelings?" My Cuban sojourn was during that fateful month of October, 1956, when, even in Havana news of the Hungarian student rioters headlined all the papers. Indeed, the Hungarian freedom-fighter was also a student, and we all lauded his youthful ardor as a tribute to the ideals of free...
Expecting at least a token condemnation of Chinese aggression from its old neutralist cronies, India was, to say the least, disappointed. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru received Mrs. Bandaranaike coolly after her ten-day sojourn in China, but did not reject her proposals outright. Nehru still hopes to gain time to build up his shattered armed forces. Too much delay, however, could try China's patience; still scratched on many buildings in the Himalayas is the ominous warning left by Chinese troops as they withdrew after last month's ceasefire: "We may have to return...
...permit. Since the Portuguese have no restrictions, refugees use nearby Macao as a handy jumping-off point to Hong Kong. In Macao, operating openly under the aegis of the China Travel Service, no fewer than five Communist agencies with enticing names like "Favorable Wind" and "Sojourn Intercourse'' steer customers to smugglers for a fee of $3.50 a head. After dark the travel agents put them aboard junks...
...went into the woods at Walden Pond. He built himself a little cabin, largely out of secondhand materials, the cost of which he recorded in precise Yankee style: $28.12½, including a 10? latch and a penny piece of chalk. Thus he began his celebrated two-year sojourn in happy isolation. Last week. 116 years later, Thoreau would have been able to find his clump of woods easily enough, but not necessarily the solitude to permit him to drive life into a corner. The snort and belch of automobiles punctuate the old serenity of Walden. and the yelps of children...