Word: sojourner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his Swiss sojourn, Cornwell joined the army intelligence corps. His fluency won him an assignment in Vienna where he added human dimension to his fresh literary perceptions. "I spent a great deal of time with extraordinary victims of half a dozen wars," he remembers with the air of an old warden. "Estonians, for example, who had been imprisoned by the Germans, fought for the Germans, been imprisoned by the Russians, imprisoned again by the Americans." He met R.A.F. officers who had bombed Berlin in 1945 and returned for the airlift of 1948-49. The ironies altered his life...
Calderazzo's sojourn soon ended at Ullo's San Fernando Valley home. The FBI's two other witnesses, Robert Zander, 28, and Craig Petzold, 32, say that they were working at Ullo's place when they heard screams from a guesthouse. Minutes later, they said, Ullo summoned them to the house, where they saw Calderazzo's body. They testified that Ullo gave Zander a .22 automatic with instructions that it be delivered to Connor. Then the pair were ordered to dump Calderazzo's body in the desert, where it became fodder for scavenging animals...
...midst of the earth." That could be interpreted as the need for a Cairo-Damascus-Jerusalem federation. Ezekiel 47: 22 could be taken to point out that Israelis have a responsibility not just to Jewish immigrants but to the Palestinian Arabs under their jurisdiction: "The strangers that sojourn among you . . . they shall be unto you as the homeborn, [and] they shall have inheritance with...
...wonder everybody wants to go down to Florida. Life is easy down there. And so is baseball, or maybe it just appears that way, when you look at the Harvard baseball team's successful sojourn in Sunshine Land...
Broader Audience. In a sense, the Clinton sojourn was more important to Carter's aims than the U.N. appearance. It is in down-home Middle America that he hopes to build the constituency that will support him when he has to make the tough decisions on foreign and domestic problems. It is partly to open the foreign affairs dialogue to a broader audience that Carter has been tossing about such code phrases as "defensible borders" for Israel and "a Palestinian homeland," with little apparent regard for the experts' delicate definitions...