Word: sojourner
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...hundreds of demonstrators who've vowed to stop the boy from leaving Lazaro's house might react. Then there's the drama of Elian's own reunion with a father he's known only via the telephone since last November's trauma. And even the question of whether a sojourn in a tony Maryland suburb leads Juan Miguel to contemplate a change of address. The drama that began last fall appears to have reached its season-finale cliffhanger, and the outcome is anything but predictable...
...immediate crafting of the sojourn had been equally painstaking and personal, a powerful three-part pilgrimage recapitulating the very development of the Christian concept of God. It began officially on Feb. 24, when, denied entrance by Iraq, John Paul made a "virtual pilgrimage" (using props and videotape) to the city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, with whom God made his first covenant. The journey continued with the Pope's visit to the mountain in Egypt thought by many to be Mount Sinai, atop which the Lord presented Moses with...
...successful election was to set Duehay on a nearly 40-year sojourn into local politics, which he bowed out of after his final council term ended this January...
Some men get wiser with age, others, it seems, only drift farther and farther from the neighborhood of good sense. Jesse Jackson, who has been relatively quiet since last spring's sojourn with Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, is back in the headlines, this time crusading on behalf of high-school hoodlums...