Word: sojourns
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...journey-to New Guinea and the Solomons-came in very handy when the U.S. forces invaded those lands. Vandercook recalls asking his wife during their Solomons sojourn in 1933-34: "Why don't we just live here? It's the most beautiful place in the world, and it's so obvious nothing can ever happen here." News of the U.S.-British deal for Caribbean bases made Vandercook a commentator. When the story broke, he was paying a social call on an NBC vice president. This official asked Vandercook if he knew anything about the West Indies. They...
...Measured by results-the almost incalculably great and far-reaching consequences which followed tardily but irresistibly after he was gone-his life was one of the most successful ever lived by man. Three others, and only three, are comparable to it in worldwide influence: Gautmma's self-sacrificing sojourn among men, the stormy career of the Arab Prophet, and the 'sinless years' which found their close on Golgotha...
...recall that "if you open both the top and bottom [of a window] as far as they will go" the window is still shut. H. R. Baukhage sweated, and Earl Godwin's face went red and stayed that way. Leland Stowe seemed rusty after his long Russian sojourn...
...York he studied when he could at Columbia University, lived in the slums. From his sojourn he learned that Americans are "strong in business and materialistically inclined," but when he became ill in a dismal New York boardinghouse he also found that "the masses of the U.S. are more sensitive to the feeling of justice than the masses of any other country, and American democracy is the best democracy in the world...
...tour of hobo jungles with The Girl, he is unexpectedly robbed, stuffed into a freight car headed south, railroaded into a prison chain gang, and officially pronounced dead. In prison he learns the value of making people laugh, returns to Hollywood a sadder & wiser director (especially after a punishing sojourn in the prison sweatbox...