Word: sojourners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formative experiences of Palme's life was a sojourn to the U.S. in 1948. He zipped through four years at Kenyon College in Ohio in one year, then took a four-month hitchhiking tour of 34 states. The poverty he saw amid plenty, he would say later, helped him develop the intensely personal and emotional commitment to Swedish-style socialism that guided him all his life...
...course, Marcos was no typical elderly vacationer and his stay on the Hawaiian Islands will be no ordinary sojourn. As Baby Doc Duvalier had recently done in Haiti, Marcos had just bid a hasty adieu to a people and a nation he had ruled for many years with an iron fist and a greased palm...
...said a fellow teacher. "She wanted women to do more, to learn more." She wanted everyone to learn more, including herself. "What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars," she said after entering the astronaut program. Despite her newfound celebrity, McAuliffe never doubted that following her sojourn in space she would return to Concord, to the family she would have been away from for many months and, above all, to her classroom. She told an audience last August, "I touch the future. I teach...
...inhabitants of earth, the third closest planet to the star, the long- awaited spectacle had begun. After a 75-year sojourn through the solar system, Halley's (rhymes with valley's) comet had again swung into view, but just barely. At Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson one night last month, several large telescopes tracked the approaching comet, projecting images that flickered across television monitors. But like countless amateur stargazers around the world, the astronomers wanted to see the cosmic celebrity with their own eyes. Huddled in the chill mountain air outside an observatory dome, necks craned, binoculars raised, they...
...young nobleman. A Maggot, ultimately, is the story of a new era trying to be born. As in The French Lieutenant's Woman, the future's unwitting herald is an obscure, ostracized but emotionally galvanic woman. She is Rebecca Lee, a prostitute who accompanies the nobleman on his sojourn and who, conceiving a resplendent religious vision at the moment he disappears, is transformed and joins a tiny band of Protestant zealots in Manchester...