Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought the kids might like a breath of thin air over the holidays. In Nepal to work on a hospital for his old climbing companions, the Sherpas, Sir Edmund packed his ice ax and took his wife, Louise, and their three children, aged seven to eleven, on a trek to the 18,000-ft. base camp from which, in 1953, he became the first man to climb Mount Everest...
Undoubtedly most people who feel the present draft system is pretty good did not bother to make the long trek out to Ohio for a conference based on the premise that it needs reform. Almost everyone, who did come was concerned with the ethics of the draft; they obviously constituted a more radical segment of the intellectual community than those who stayed at home. And while invitations were mailed out to hundreds of universities and military colleges across the country, only about 40 colleges were represented...
Cliffies argued--and with good reason--that it was inconvenient to make a long trek each morning to the Quad; if they had to do that, they said, the richer off-campus residents would simply buy their own breakfast food and the less well off would refuse to move off campus. The College--already in a housing bind even without this threat of insurrection--quickly offered break-fast subsidies...
...love the West when she trained there with the Royal Canadian Air Force (she came out with the rank of flying officer). For an outsider's impressions of the West's wonders, World Editor Edward Hughes sent Chicago Correspondent Ed Shook on a 4,000-mile trek through the booming prairies and mountains...
Qataban and Sheba, was praised by scholars. But the U.S. State Department got annoyed when Phillips started dabbling in sensitive Mid-East politics. Scholars on his own expedition com plained that he was more interested in angles than in artifacts. And the Yemen trek ended abruptly when Phillips fled the country, fearing assassination by uncontrolled Yemeni soldiers...