Word: sojourner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would go back tomorrow if I could," he says with a wistful smile. "I never will adjust myself to living out of Africa. Every time I have left it has been a temporary sojourn." But then he laughs, and nods toward the large, base-relief map of Africa above his desk, and adds, "In some ways, I never really leave...
...footing the bill it makes the prospects for a good time all the better. If, however, you have to practice day in and day out, a Florida vacation might not seem all that attractive. For Harvard's spring teams, most of which are going south, the one week sojourn is the final stage of preparation for the opening of regular season competition in early April...
Quite by coincidence, the second session of the 93rd U.S. Congress began last week on the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger. But there were very few tigers in evidence among the returning 431 Congressmen and 100 Senators. Their sojourn among the voters back home during the 29-day holiday recess exposed them to an American public that was angry, suspicious, impatient and sour, and one, moreover, that was sharply divided on how to solve the nation's problems. Energy shortages, exploding prices, dwindling jobs, all conspired to make 1974, for most legislators, loom...
...years later. He was the greatest of all the European artists who, displaced by war, settled in America and began the ferment that culminated in what Art Historian Irving Sandler, in an infelicitously imperial phrase, recently called "the triumph of American painting." Yet the results of Mondrian's sojourn have to some extent been set on a back burner...
...healthy-looking and cheerful George Wallace, 54, was on a sojourn in a bastion of what he has called the pointyheads who can't park a bicycle straight: New York City. After accepting a Freedom Award from the right-wing Order of Lafayette, Wallace visited his doctor, Ling Sun Chu, a Manhattan internist, then taped a program for Barbara Walters' TV series, Not for Women Only. The subject: the acupuncture treatments he has received from Dr. Chu to ease discomfort caused by his paralyzed legs. Perhaps conscious that a Chinese medical technique might seem exotic to Middle Americans...