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Word: junketing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp it up like movie queens on an overseas promo junket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gilded Cage | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...that the whole visit had been "significant," adding that his talks with the Chinese leaders had been "friendly, candid, substantial and constructive." It was as if the President constantly had to remind himself-and the people around him-that his journey across the Pacific was more than a political junket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Ford in China: Warm Hosts | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...John Hancock Building. The press bus was on time, if I wasn't, and its fog-covered windows held forth some hope of reportorial warmth inside, even if those 14 black letters and numerals on its side dimmed my hopes that this would be a presidential campaign press junket worthy of Tim Crouse, Hunter Thompson or Teddy White...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Blue Skies Over Georgia | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...last time I had seen Jimmy Carter before the Providence junket was over a year ago, when he was already stumping the land to feel out his prospects for '76. He was in Dallas, where he was giving his Christian testimony to a packed house of the faithful at the Southern Baptist Convention. The most distinct image I recall from the occasion is that of a mouse-like man with a choir-boy's face and a Sunday schooler's plaintive, sincerely righteous voice, leaning in to the mike to tell of his conversion experience and waving somewhat embarrassedly...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Blue Skies Over Georgia | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...action has been taken on filling that task force because the councilors are on a week-long Florida junket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fate of the Yards | 12/4/1975 | See Source »

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