Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snow shovels, pickaxes, blankets and stretchers, German and Swiss skiers by the hundreds last week dashed across the Austrian borders at Bregenz and Feldkirch. Customs officials forgot all the usual frontier formalities as they waved them on. The shouted phrase, "We're going to Blons," was all the passport that was needed...
...occupational badges of a veteran foreign correspondent is his bulging passport. Recently one such correspondent arrived in New York with a worn, battered old passport which had swollen to 140 pages. He is John Graham Dowling, TIME'S correspondent in Southeast Asia, who had just flown in from Singapore with his wife and eight-month...
...from the bench. Vacationing in the Canary Islands, Clark, who had vowed he would sit tight even though his commission expires this month, was suddenly telephoned by Robert D. Hale, U.S. Consul General in Madrid. The threat, on Washington's orders: Clark had to hand in his diplomatic passport or face arrest for his obstinacy. He capitulated, gave Hale the credentials, got in return a new passport, which will expire Jan. 28. In an outraged huff, Clark announced that he would soon sail to the U.S. from France, pay his own way home. He said he would hold...
...that Trujillo was simply reminding Rubi that the Benefactor is still the one & only boss. Any public official under Trujillo may suffer an occasional, penitential spell of unemployment; Rubi's turn has obviously come. For a while, he will have to get along without the magic diplomatic passport, will have to let the customs officers of New York, Cherbourg and other way stations muss his socks and shirts. Then, his cafe-society pals confidently believe, he will be restored to diplomacy and the work for which he is so well fitted...
...Canadian government, which regards a passport simply as a proof of citizenship, was well aware of Rose's departure. Explained an official: "If he never comes back, we're well...