Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed they were. Smith quickly dismissed Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs as the Queen's representative, took over the role himself. His government slapped a whole new series of controls on the newly free nation. Imports, exports and foreign travel were rigidly restricted. No foreign exchange could be bought or sold. The government empowered itself to call all white males of 55 or under into the territorial reserve...
Most of those who deliberately seek adventure have their moments of selfcriticism. For all his enthusiasm, Alaska's Bishop Gordon sometimes wonders whether "the really heroic people are not the ones who travel 10,000 miles by dog sled, but those who stay 10,000 days in one place. I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day." That view is echoed by Amherst's Historian John William Ward, who sees something "pathetic and sentimental" in the American adventurer. "Today," he says...
...provides a ten-year rap if "two or more persons conspire" to deprive any person of his federal rights. In 1951, however, an evenly divided (4-4) Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that Section 241 protects only a limited class of federal rights, such as interstate travel. As a result, the U.S. could not use it to enforce a citizen's Fourteenth Amendment rights of due process and equal protection...
...used to tell her stories about Mary Poppins as a child, but I deny that." She refuses to say, or perhaps doesn't know, just where the idea came from. But the books were popular from their first appearance in 1934. Their author has since been able to travel and encounter people all over the world, with almost as much speed and aplomb as her heroine...
...nature. Soon after he stepped outside his hut near the village of My Tho, south of Saigon, a grenade launcher roared and sent its missile into his back from a distance that must have been less than 12 yds. The Viet Cong's 40-mm. grenades need to travel that far before exploding...