Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left the Commodore headquarters for the privacy of 60 Morningside Drive, official residence of Columbia's president. His avowed intentions were to watch the Army-Navy game on TV and to pass a restful Sunday broken only by one conference. Republican bigwigs began to trek up to Morningside Drive, but Ike himself became a shadowy, unseen figure. Probable purpose of his self-imposed seclusion: to avoid pinpointing the time of his departure for Korea...
...this incentive plan has by no means solved Tito's most pressing problem. In Bosnia and Montenegro, the peasants are reluctant to make the long and costly trek to the cities; and those who are attracted by new industrial centers often return home because the factories tend to expand too quickly while raw material sources remain meagre or distant. The larger deposits of coal and iron in Serbia and Slovenia, however, have made a speedier development of heavy industry there possible...
...filled for his Demonstration Meeting of the Dale Carnagic Course in Human Relations. Advance newspaper ads had stressed the course's ability to bestow courage, self-confidence, and U. S. currency on those who took it, and three hundred people had felt insecure, inferior, and poor enough to trek into Boston for last Thursday's evening meeting...
...Winchester; RKO Radio), based on A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s 1947 novel, can best be described as a northwestern-the story of a grueling, 1,200-mile fur-trading trek up the uncharted...
...China Hand Paxton, brought up in the Orient by missionary parents, was U.S. consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths of the sweltering Turfan Depression, and across the 18,300-ft. Karakoram Pass, until they made safety in a Kashmir village...