Word: yondering
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...develops over the years, figures out that the U.S. and Russia are bogged down by the problem of how to get the lunarnaut back to earth. Dr. Kanashima surmounts this technological scruple through superior moral force. With the fervor of a kamikaze, he flings himself into the wild blue yonder knowing it will be only a one-way trip...
...Painter Jacques Villon and Sculptor Duchamp-Villon, went on to make careers in art that placed them near the top of their generation. By comparison, Marcel Duchamp seemed like a naughty boy who ties enigmatic, impudent, possibly lewd messages to balloons, then lets them fly off into the blue yonder. But now, 42 years after he abandoned art, his messages have come down to earth. Far from being gibberish, the scribblings now seem cryptic formulas for the future...
Sandra plays the granddaughter of a dying plutocrat (Chevalier) who insists on seeing her fiancé before he "joins the Big Board up yonder." Since her fiance (Williams) is fogbound in Boston, Sandra seizes the first presentable passerby (Goulet) and tells her grandfather that this is the man she loves. Turns out he is, too, but it takes Sandra 95 minutes to find out she wasn't lying...
...Baltimore Room of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel last week, the 18-member Arrangements Committee tiptoed through the motions of picking the top officers for the Aug. 24 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. National Committee Chairman John Bailey ran the meeting-but there was the Big Chairman Up Yonder in the White House, and it was he who really called the shots. Periodically Bailey loped off to a telephone in the next room to give Lyndon Johnson running reports on how well his committee was rubber-stamping Lyndon's directions...
...know what the letters stand for, C.M.E.?" Knight did not wait for me to answer. "Used to be that C.M.E. Church over yonder, back when that church was a big thing. But it dosen't have anything to do with it any more. C.M.E., it stands for crime, murder, and the electric chair.--Shoot, I seen white folks run here just from fear of slowin' down. Seen it two years ago, anyhow...