Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in his native Iowa with his third-party campaign, Wallace slogged along on his crusade. He looked tired and sullen; his hair was now almost white. Seeing him wandering aimlessly around hotel lobbies, old friends came up to him with a smile, and tried to talk. They soon gave up and just stared. Wallace stared back and then wandered on, heavy-bodied, restless and moody...
...Gideons added a realistic touch to 2,000 Bibles which they presented to Chicago's Stevens Hotel-the cover of each book was alcohol-proof...
...Arab refugees scuttling from Palestine, sent Arab politicians to Abdullah in Amman. Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs after a visit last week: "Amman has become an Oriental boom town, crowded by Arab politicians, foreign diplomats and correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars. Through this tangled mass, a Legion jeep, mounting a Bren gun and a loud horn, clears the way for three white-helmeted motorcyclists preceding...
...hotel rooms last week sat the men who had masterminded the victory of Rebel leader José Figueres in Costa Rica's civil war. Most of them were Nicaraguan and Dominican exiles, and they were indifferent to the celebrations in the streets outside. They had business to do. Said soft-voiced Dominican Colonel Miguel A. Ramirez, who had been Figueres' chief of staff in the recent campaign: "This is only the beginning. There are other, harder projects ahead...
...Britain, the overvalued pound made touring comparatively expensive. In London's first-flight Dorchester Hotel, for example, a single room with bath cost $11 a night. Britain's rationing system was also stricter than on the Continent, but the meals, plain though they might be, were reasonably priced (the government had pegged them at $1). In the provinces, food was better, and hotel prices (about $4 a night) lower. Britain's best lures: dollar tourists could buy clothes and get enough gasoline to drive 600 miles in two weeks, 1,000 in four...