Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixed vegetables, 8,000 Ibs. of fresh fish and meat, 36,000 Ibs. of lettuce. One result: Inter-Island's boats are now out of business except for heavy shipping and an occasional junket for honeymooners...
Short Putt. In North College Hill, Ohio, Charles A. Lasure, 82, rested overnight after a 1,000-mile junket from Ardmore, Okla., then started back the way he had come: by motor scooter...
There would be time for some fun. Harry Truman would be in Omaha to ride in the parade of his World War I division (the 35th); would spend two nights with his old crony, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren. But Democratic professionals privately admitted that the junket was designed for only one reason: an attempt to beef up sickly Democratic morale. Taking no chances of skimpy crowds anywhere, National Chairman J. Howard McGrath sent out word to Government workers at every whistle stop that the President...
...trip disillusioned Gide. Even before his Russian junket he had said: "The climate in the writings of Karl Marx is suffocating to me. There is something lacking, I don't know what kind of ozone indispensable to my mental respiration." Gide's Return from the U.S.S.R. (his first bestseller, at 67) astounded and infuriated the Communists. He wrote: "I doubt whether in any other country in the world, even Hitler's Germany, thought be less free, more bowed down, more fearful, more vassalized." The faithful, who had seen Gide treated like a hero, were now instructed...
...Honolulu last week, George McMillen, of Los Angeles, paused briefly on a junket to China. Among other assignments, McMillen would enter a Philippine jungle, shouting for Chloe. If she failed to answer, he was to bring home a boa constrictor. McMillen is a contest loser. He missed a $2,000 prize on NBC's Truth or Consequences. The consequence: his trip, paid for jointly by the radio show and Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...