Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important, is that the major factor in Derby handicapping is the distance. A mile and a quarter is a gruelling route, and at this time of year there have been no major races for three-year olds at this distance. One must search to find a horse who can travel ten furlongs without suffering a coronary along...
...short story in must be "Intimacy" by George Teter, but the designation is debatable. The action takes places in the memory and fancy of a drowsy, musing passenger on a ramshackle Greyhound crossing the Rockies. A girl lies "well-wedged" against him in the sweaty bus, and as they travel toward California he slowly loses her, in muddled, morbid imaginings, to "a hardfaced fellow with protuberant eyes" sitting across the aisle. Metaphors incubate by the dozen in Teter's fecund prose, sometimes overgrowing it altogether. But Teter's style is more inventive and exuberant than turgid. For instance...
...senior thesis. A government major concentrating in Latin American politics might "live and work" in Argentina, Brazil or Peru. An anthropology major specializing in archeology might spend a year digging in Greece. Flexibility and individual initiative would be the key features of the five year degree. Financial support and travel would be desirable but not necessary. The entire program would be made an optional addition, not a prerequisite, to the present leave of absence. And its success would depend on close consultation with advisors and tutors...
...thinks of the poor hog breeder torn between love of his work and a yen for European travel? Who cares about the speleologist yearning to visit foreign lands but loath to mix with ordinary tourists who never plumbed a cave? Travel agents, that's who. What's more, they're doing something about it. This year Academy Travel Ltd. will assemble an exclusive and hardy band of spelunkers in London, collect $195 a head, and lead them off on a somewhat sunless 15-day crawl through the caves of Rumania. In New York, Lindblad Travel...
...wave of what the travel agents call "special interest trips" is cresting. Come summer, the world will be swarming with traveling gangs of golfers or gourmets, of art or bird watchers, of chess players, music maniacs and film fans. All winter, liners have been steaming out of the U.S. with boatloads of bridge buffs - two of them featuring Charles Goren as supercargo...