Word: junketeering
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...neck and gradually discovers that handing out golden platitudes on silver platters is a tricky business. He winces effectively as his managers tell him that people are nice but they don't count--only votes matter and they come from Machines. Tracy comes of age after his initial political junket across the country; he decides for the people and throws the votes out the window. He'd rather be pristine than president...
Busman. South Dakota-born Dr. Ochsner, married and the father of four, says that his only real hobby is his work. Once in a long while he goes trout-fishing in Madison River, Idaho. His trips to Latin America are a busman's holiday: on a 1941 junket to Panama, he gave 29 lectures at Gorgas Memorial Institute, did 40 operations at Santo Tomas Hospital...
Sixteen varsity skaters hit the road for Montreal and possibly their longhest hockey match last night, commencing a five-game holiday junket for 1947-48. McGill University, their Canadian opponent, considers its ice team "the most important heritage to the world of sport," and the last time the boys across the border faced an American squad, they shattered Yale's high-flying 1946-47 sextet...
Publisher Bertie McCormick of the Chicago Tribune ("I'm a Taft man myself") got back to the U.S. after a five-week Pacific junket and unburdened himself of a wealth of political opinions: 1) though General Douglas MacArthur is not a presidential candidate, he would not refuse a draft; 2) "There will be no damned foreigners in the Illinois G.O.P. primary. If Dewey or Stassen try to crash . . . we'll have to do something about it"; 3) "I think very highly of Warren, but a man cannot go into a national convention with only one state...
Alumni, the Committee's main current goal calls for delaying final decision by Yesterday a telephone conversation with Salstonstall, who returned Sunday from a European Congressional junket produced assurance that no further formal deliberations would take place before "the first of year...