Word: sojourns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the 123 division here his sophomore year by going undefeated in all competition and culminated his best year by winning the National AAU's held in Iowa. That summer he was selected for a team of five wrestlers which toured the islands of Japan. His record for the sojourn was five wins and three defeats. During this time he twice competed against the Olympic champion, Shohaci Ishii...
...Belgium, where the flood waters spread over 40,000 acres and took a toll of 14 lives, 22-year-old King Baudouin, less royally gifted with a sense of fitness, raised another storm by leaving his country in mid-disaster to sojourn with his father, deposed King Leopold II, on the balmy French Riviera...
Iran. "On the basis of my studies and sojourn in Persia, I am convinced that Persia is now entering a period of chaos and anarchy . . . From the times of Darius and Cyrus, Persia has known only peace through a strong man ... To prate of democracy to the Persians is like advocating prohibition to the denizens of hell." Childs believes that "the money we are pouring into Persia is money thrown down a drain," and that the U.S. faces "the alternative of seeing Russia take over the whole of Persia or, if we are sufficiently farsighted, only the northern half...
...nobleman, Lautrec was crippled in childhood and grew up an ugly, aristocratic dwarf who tried, in cognac and in the brothels and bistros of Paris, to forget the pain in his legs and heart. When he died at 37, after a feverish lifetime that included a sojourn in a madhouse, he left behind him a vivid record of the lower depths of Paris, its harlots and hunted, defeated and disfigured, drawn with artistry, insight and compassion...
Granted, there have been and will be meetings where the worst of the oratory is matched by will, whose occurence is and will be a pall on the free world's get-togethers. A few thousand delegates from the winters of Democratic Centralism will soon sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonics have shifted from a lcaky tent to a wooden structure, does...