Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, said Clement, to plan for the happy hour when the "party of privilege and pillage passes over the Potomac in the greatest water-crossing since the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea." The evacuation "will be an astronomer's dream of shooting stars, for this trek will have generals to the right of them, generals to the left of them, and generals in front of them as these old soldiers fold their tents and just fade away." Clement conjured up florid images of Eisenhower, a genial, glamorous and affable general who had joined the Republican Party after...
...child by black Joseph's sister. The girl with her little Bastaard, "yellow and wrinkled like a stone," had been sent packing. Big Joseph, on a pilgrimage as painful as that of the black pastor in Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, had made his pitiful trek to discover what happened to his sister and her child. After failing in his search, he had returned to make a moral judgment of the whites who had wronged him. His sentence: he dooms the whites to his own company, and still using the language of the "good" (i.e., subservient...
...battle. Then the Japanese played their ace. They introduced their leader, Yuko Maki, 62, a Tokyo manure dealer, who happened, by careful coincidence, to be just as devout a Buddhist as the Samians. Maki passed on all the gifts and made his pitch: as a Buddhist, his trek up Manaslu would be a pilgrimage, not a desecration. What's more, he was prepared to hire some porters right there in Sama. The expedition was permitted to proceed...
...Service-scattering of facilities. Located in the Hygiene Building, Stillman, and six other spots, the department does not have a center, convenient to the Yard, from which all of its services can operate. Thus, the Hygiene Building's 5 p.m. closing forces sick students to make a night-time trek to Stillman. During last Monday's storm the building closed at 2:30 p.m. and posted a notice directing emergency cases through snow, ice and wind to Stillman...
...club members held their tongues, for the invaders were no chattering, once-a-week golfing housewives cluttering up the greens or excavating in the sand traps; they were the 25 top players of the Ladies' Professional Golfers Association. The la dies were winding up their winter's trek with the Titleholders championship, the "Masters tournament" of women's golf...