Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was one huge hitch-nobody could go outside the Western Hemisphere just for fun. Many a country, notably Great Britain and Switzerland, wanted dollar-laden tourists. And Eire was still a little bit of tourist heaven. But food supplies were still too short everywhere, hotel and transportation facilities too cramped to accommodate a horde of tourists. People with "good and sufficient" reasons-businessmen going after business, students going to foreign schools, people who wanted to visit relatives-had little trouble getting passports for Europe, Asia, Africa. The U.S. Department of State, swamped with 1,000 passport applications...
...devotees of subtle and sophisticated comedy are hereby warned to take cover! Hope and Crosby, those merry knights of the open road, are here again in another of their wonderfully wacky travelogues. And whether their destination is Zanzibar, Morocco, or Utopia, (in this case the gold-laden Klondike), the end-product is the game: a trite but entertaining concoction of gay repartee, old-fashioned slapstick, and straight Iowa corn...
Ignoring the pickets, habit-bound Charlie plodded off with his milk-laden wagon on the complicated route he had traveled for 15 years. Early risers saw him turn the right corners, stop at the right houses, wait a few moments at each before moving...
...from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden sleds in tandem, followed. The base's siren whined farewell...
...superiors or kept cooling his heels in the dirty waiting room filled with dated copies of the Daily Express and France Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must not give a false impression of slackness you know. You are being trained for a position...