Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
Senior and freshmen swimmers splashed past Annapolis on the allegorical race through eight men's colleges, but stalled on the last lap of the journey...
Swimmers of the Annex junior class "reached Yale" yesterday afternoon during the second day of water intramurals in an attempt to complete a mythical journey through eight men's colleges and "get back in time for the Yale game" Saturday. The sophomores, for whom no swimmers had turned out on Monday, swam right past the senior and freshman teams and on 164 lengths to Dartmouth...
Accompanying a recipe for Rhode Island Johnny Cake was the notation that "it was once called journey cake, I am told, because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...
...Best of Times is his description of a journey through Europe, for Holiday magazine, in 1946-47. It is a mixture of Europe recalled and Europe revisited - a nostalgic, often beautiful restatement of things that have survived, and a horrified reporting of things that now lie in ruin. Like the vivid paintings and drawings that accompany them, the numerous anecdotes carry a rich embroidery of Bemelmanly fantasy...