Word: outing
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...NOTEBOOK: Having proven in their first outing that they have both depth and talent, the Crimson harriers have to hope they can remain bound together in the front of the pack when they travel to Van Cortlandt Park in New York for the annual triangular meet with Penn and Columbia...
...West and back toward the duties of running the Government from Washington seemed out of sync with the stiff challenges ahead. Chief of Staff James Baker turned his Texas tenor loose on country music that only he could hear through his earphones. Communications Adviser David Gergen, fresh from an outing in the Tetons, could not resist the beat of the Supremes. He grabbed the hands of Margaret Tutwiler, Baker's top assistant, and danced through the cabin...
Only hours later, another group of mountaineers met disaster on Oregon's Mount Hood, roughly 100 miles south of Mount Rainier. The victims were on an outing sponsored by the Portland-based Mazamas Club, a mountaineering group founded in 1894 and specializing in assaults on Mount Hood's 11,235-ft. peak. At the 10,500-ft. level on the dormant volcano's northeast face, one or more of the 17-member party slipped. The climbers, roped together in groups for safety, tumbled 2,000 ft. down the slope...
...Carter drug adviser who resigned after giving an aide a prescription for Quaaludes under a fictitious name, once stated that there was "occasional" use of cocaine among White House staffers (although a later charge that Carter's Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan had sniffed it on an outing to Studio 54 proved groundless...
...seem like parodies--gimpy versions of the real thing. Roger Moore, the man with the cement face, is getting on in years; and the idea that his homeland, leading candidate as successor to Turkey as the sick man of Europe, could muster the resources for a typical Bond outing seems, well, a little...