Word: sojourning
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Thatcher emerged from her Moscow sojourn more convinced than ever that Gorbachev is "someone I can do business with," her description of him following their first meeting in 1984. Moreover, having spent more time with Gorbachev than any other Europern leader has, she seemed convinced that he is someone with whom the West can do business. That just may be the message Gorbachev wanted her to carry out of their long hours of debate...
...scholarship that took him to Oxford and England, "the other man's country." He reveals nothing about his university experiences and alludes only glancingly to the following 15 years he spent struggling to make his name as a writer. What engages, indeed mesmerizes, his attention is his sojourn in rural England, "this gift of the second life in Wiltshire, the second, happier childhood as it were, the second arrival (but with an adult's perception) at a knowledge of natural things, together with the fulfillment of the child's dream of the safe house in the wood...
...even more substantial grounds. For Dukakis has presided over a golden age of comedy in his home state. Jay Leno got his start on the local comedy circuit during Dukakis' first term in office, and Steven Wright and D.J. Hazard hit it big during the governor's second sojourn in the state house. It's no coincidence that no one was funny during the King Administration...
...with their U.S. dollars. Officials have guaranteed them jobs and promised that any emigres who wish may later return to the West. Such solicitude may have been spurred by the embarrassing case of the four-member Gonta family, which returned to Moscow last fall after a ten- year U.S. sojourn. Three days later, the Gontas changed their minds and went right back to New Jersey...
...Doolittle doubts that his sojourn at Harvard will be permanent. "I seem to have about a two-year span of attention," he says pragmatically. Doolittle doesn't know what he'll be doing in five years, or in 20, but he says he knows that one thing will be with him for the rest of his life: "I guess I'll die with a poor attitude...