Word: junketed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he was perhaps the most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...
...these teams are all "pretty good," according to Chase's pre-season sizeups. A Christmas trip west, with games against Minnesota and Michigan, had been planned, but the steel strike held up completion of Minnesota's new rink which the Crimson was to have helped inaugurate. So the junket was called...
Fresh from a junket at Yale, where they asked their hosts why so many students were "white shoes and striped ties," the group will arrive as South Station this afternoon at 2:25 and be met by a Boston Bar Association headed by Professor George K. Gardner of the Law School...
When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...
From the Communists there was smug mirth. Their press mocked America's "atomaniacs." In Italy, pro-Soviet Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni (just back from a 15-day junket to another "peace" congress in Moscow) proudly pinpointed the site of the explosion in "eastern Siberia." In the town of Santeramo near Bari, Communists got the news in the middle of the night, raced in nightshirts and dressing gowns to a hasty rally where a speaker promised: "We Communists will have our headquarters at the White House! Washington shall be ours...