Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joan of Arc. Early in their occupation, the Chinese Reds wiped out Sinkiang's original Moslem leaders. Looking for someone else to lead them, the restive Moslems turned to one Abraim Aysaev, an Uighur regional official who had been thinking dangerous thoughts since returning from a Communist-sponsored junket to the Middle East in 1958. Discovered by the secret police early this year, Aysaev was summoned to party headquarters. That night, according to the Communists, he returned to his hotel and killed himself. Fearing public outcry, the Reds buried him without a funeral...
Rockefeller said that he felt no political wounds from his recent junket into vice-President Nixon's home territory. He described the California venture as one of a series of trips which he plans to make before deciding whether or not to become a candidate...
...Junketeering Press. So vigorously did the press pursue the day-by-day chronicle of shady shenanigans that TV spokesmen quit muttering "We were duped" long enough to fight back feebly. "What are the newsmen to criticize our ethics?" they asked. The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould (see PRESS) quoted unidentified network executives who accused almost all TV writers of being "junketeers," i.e., free loading travelers who let networks, ad agencies or sponsors pick up the tab for a trip. And as if to divest itself of any further blame for thus "corrupting" the press, NBC canceled...
...finished off one fifth, then another ("Here's the second dead soldier," remarked a steward, as he tossed an empty into the trash), then topped them off with an extra pint. Never really boisterous, the two men spent their time bending the ears of other passengers on the junket. "Hell," burbled one mayor, "we're not down here to look at this meet; we're down here to have a good time. When are you going to bring on the dancing girls...
Burlington, Vt., Oct. 21 (UPI).-The mayors of Burlington and Rutland, Vt. said they would buy plane tickets home from Florida at their own expense because the Air Force junket they were on was a "fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland's Mayor Dan J. Healy], an outrage being perpetrated not only on the taxpayers of Vermont, but the entire U.S." . . ."The whole thing is a fraud [said Burlington's Mayor James E. Fitzpatrick], a terrible waste of tax money and our time. We're coming home...