Word: sojourns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries in commercial experience . . . that her admirable army and her heroic navy may be doomed to make their last sacrifices in hopeless contest against some combination of greedy states...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini landed on the dock in Manhattan, hale and chipper after a four-month sojourn in Italy and what he announced would be his last boat trip. "I enjoyed the voyage," admitted the 82-year-old perfectionist, but it took too long: from now on "I prefer air travel...
...prospect of even a short sojourn in Lercara Friddi was enough to make an active man short-tempered. Lucky roughed up photographers at the entrance to his apartment building. Said he: "In the States I know what I can do and what I can't. Over here it's different. They got laws I don't know anything about...
...Harvard ruggers opened their Bermuda sojourn by playing the Bermuda Athletic Association to a 3-3 tie. Al Green scored the Crimson's try on a penalty play and Sam Adams just missed registering another Harvard try. John Densmore, Crimson fullback, played an excellent game. Another back, Mike Peabody, suffered a broken shoulder. Eddin Davis blocked a strong BAA bid for a second...
Written in 1720 during Handel's sojourn in England, the work--more properly called a pastoral masque--was presented in the country home of the Duke of Chandos...