Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professors, associate professors, assistant professors and instructors would get up at 10 a.m., give their Harvard classes, and then trek to the Annex later in the morning to do it all over again. As anyone who has ever taken the long walk knows, a person is bound to lose some enthusiasm somewhere along...
Since the Lisbon crash, Jane has spent most of her time in & out of hospitals, undergone 25 operations. But she never let her big, throaty voice get out of form. She went back on the European U.S.O. circuit for a 30,000-mile trek while still in a cast, plugged away at sporadic nightclub and radio dates, first from a wheelchair, then on crutches...
That afternoon, the Yugoslavs began the trek back, the housewives waving their brooms, the girls their lipsticks. Yugoslav authorities feared that further excursions into the capitalist parts of Gorizia would breed discontent among Tito's subjects. At week's end, Italian newspapers carried a laconic communiqué: "Permits to cross the Italian-Yugoslav frontier will be stopped until further notice...
...University of Southern California's Owen Cochran Coy, 66, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 200 lbs.), indefatigable chronicler of early California history (The Great Trek, Gold Days). Lumbering about his classroom or sitting in his cluttered study. Professor Coy taught and talked history with the air of a reminiscent prospector. Over the years he traveled thousands of miles along pioneer trails, tabulated the names of more than 57,000 old California settlements, came to know as much about Grizzly Gulch, Whiskey Slide, Swellhead Diggings, Loafers' Flat and Lousy Level as any man alive...
...reassure friends, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 51, who broke 23 ribs last October when his horse rolled over on him, announced that during this summer's trek through Iran "I don't plan to climb [any mountains] higher than 20,000 feet...