Word: travelling
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...special funds and little extras that could be used to employ a woman with Ray's restricted talents. For example, the group voted to abolish the time-honored "cash-outs" system, under which a Congressman gets to keep any money from expense allowances-such as stationery and travel back home-that is not spent. Theoretically, he could pocket up to $11,000 every year. Under the present system, the Congressmen have 14 separate accounts, which they guard and use like so many cookie jars on the mantel. Obey's trio recommended not only that seven be consolidated into...
...tournament play at Wimbledon, Connors' most passionate fan was Marjorie Wallace, Miss World of 1973 and the Cleopatra of the jock set (previous conquests: Soccer Superstar George Best and the late Peter Revson, a top Grand Prix driver). "We've been close now for six months and travel everywhere together," said Margie happily. "Jimmy is teaching me tennis and practices with me. I don't think it will affect his performance." When asked about Jimmy at Wimbledon, Chrissie said she preferred to talk about tennis. Sounds like game, set and match to Margie...
...Whitney's cotton gin turned the South into a profitable agricultural kingdom that could rival the industrial North. Cyrus H. McCormick's reaper enabled farmers to transform the Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats, all of which helped make the U.S. standard of living the highest in the world. Plenty gave the nation...
...hardly a word of the Declaration could so far have appeared in the rest of the American press. Despite the development of post roads and fast packets between cities, news still takes weeks to travel from one end of the Colonies to the other. And because printing technology has advanced little since the Boston News-Letter became the first successful colonial newspaper in 1704, it still takes two men with a manual press ten hours to turn out a typical weekly run of 600 copies. Only three of the nation's 32 papers are printed more frequently than once...
...expected to cast his sympathies with the mother country. But from the day he first stepped ashore in Philadelphia, he has been an outspoken admirer of things American-particularly of the invigorating climate, the high standard of living available even to small farmers and laborers, and the freedom to travel without molestation by highway men and beggars. Presbyterian church policy discourages ministers from participating in politics, however, so despite his immediate enthusiasm for the Colonies, he did not become actively involved in the dispute with England until...