Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McMahon's book is a marvel of brains, brevity and sharp description. He flashes around like a lightning bug briefly casting a glow on some detail or other: what it's like to travel on the Erie Canal: how a character is inadvertently shot; the way in which daguerreotypes are made. He does a lot with bees too, but. as the book implies, they have enough metaphorical possibilities for a series of novels. A hive is a feminist state, with an automatic system for keeping warm that is activated when the temperature in the hive drops...
...Crimson booters travel to Brown on Monday where they expect to be up against some tough competition...
Neil G. Boothby, a spokesman for the event and a first year student at the Harvard Education School, said yesterday two batons will pass from runner to runner the length of the entire Eastern seaboard. One baton will travel south starting from Eastport, Maine, and the other will travel north from its starting point in Key West, Florida...
...Forum donated $500 worth of grants for the board to distribute to individuals who wish to present women's activities in their houses. The grants differ from Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) grants because RUS grants usually go to individuals in need of funds for research work or travel for school-oriented projects...
Press people are checking in to cover the arrival. Over at gate seven they're giving out United Air Lines boarding tickets for standing room on the press platform. At gate eight they're checking in the people who will travel with the papal party on the week-long trip. A small, balding and very nervous man has been handed the microphone--his voice is a mix of officious timidity. He's losing his audience. Content to find their own information, the crowd drifts away. The reporters gather around the monseigneur and the bureaucrat who are holding the seats...