Word: sojourning
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With Martin, however, the "pressure" accompanied his decision to play volleyball at Harvard, since he was to continue a by-now-impressive family tradition. Older sibling Roger '79 set for the squad in his four-year sojourn and even coached the spikers during Brad's freshman and sophomore years. "My brother was a setter and I filled his shoes on the team," says the Class of '83 Martin. The natives of Ontario have already acted as setters for eight straight years, and since Brad's sophomore brother Terry also starts this year, Brad hopes to see "10 straight years...
...Turk, Omer Bagci, a restaurant worker in a Zurich suburb, and instructed him to deposit in a baggage room at the railroad station in Milan the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol used in the papal shooting. On May 9, according to Agca, he arrived in Milan from his Majorca sojourn and picked up the gun. Four days later, he was standing in St. Peter's Square waiting for his victim...
Harvard undergraduates accustomed to unraveling a gnarl of red tape at registration will find their sojourn in Memorial Hall considerably shorter today thanks to a revised policy by the registrar's office...
...MacKay is currently ahead at 8 to 1. But his wife confesses to mixed feelings about the venture. "Sometimes I think my husband is nuts," Linda sighs. "But I am with him 100%." MacKay, who keeps busy by teaching himself to play the guitar, seems prepared for a long sojourn. "It's like putting money into a used car," he says. "I've got too much in this now to give...
...ever so ambiguous, there is no idea like home. Not the least of home's specialness is the fact that it can often be seen most clearly from afar. Thus it was a sojourn in Italy that inspired Robert Browning's famous "Oh, to be in England . . ." By chance, while in Paris early in the 19th century, the American Actor-Author John Howard Payne experienced some of the yearnings for home that found their way into his classic Home, Sweet Home. Together, Payne's song and Browning's poetry suggest that the part of home that...