Word: plodding
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...flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over Royalist areas by parachute, while camel caravans, moving under the cover of darkness, plod silently across the Saudi border into Yemen. On top of a previous $400 million arms deal with Britain and the U.S., Saudi King Feisal announced fortnight ago that he is buying twelve British-built Hawker Siddeley jets, and plans a military airfield near Qizan, within ten miles of the Yemen border...
...Wandering Birds. The British roam the moors, the heaths and the braes; Swiss and French scale the Alps, while Arab and Hindu plod weary miles to reach Mecca or the Ganges. To the German, however, the act, and not the object of the journey, is what counts. German doctors and orthopedists recommend wandern as good for the heart, lungs, legs and circulation. German sociologists inquire anxiously on questionnaires, "Do you walk with your wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century...
This time the winning formula was the same steady plod that had failed before. The difference, of course, was Hewlett. Walt pushed himself hard and was closing at the finish, but he just didn't have it. He lost by 60 yards. Perhaps he'll need a couple more weeks to regain the form that has made him a Harvard legend...
...formed in the shape of a mountain. Around the mountain, like a mighty serpent, winds a path that spirals upward to the summit. At seven stages of the ascent are situated seven cornices, and on each of them penitents purge one of the seven deadly sins. The proud plod under heavy burdens; the envious wander with eyelids sewn shut; the gluttonous gaze at inaccessible fruit. As Dante and Virgil ascend, they meet famous figures of the Middle Ages engaged in the agonies of atonement-among them Pope Adrian V, King Philip the Fair, the poets Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel...
...publishers' mutual decision to lop off two Sunday-evening issues a month was prompted by sheer necessity. The papers were simply running low on boypower. The supply of newsboys who plod their routes day after day is declining along with the country's population, and the press is confronted with a chronic and growing shortage of young carriers. To compound the problem, the newsboys, less than satisfied with an average take of $13 a month, have been steadily defecting for better pay elsewhere in the country's boom economy...