Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first issue of Pravda came out in 1912. Molotov was soon arrested and exiled to Siberia. When the Revolution came in 1917, he was a hunted escapee, hiding in Petrograd with a faked passport. He cheered on the revolutionary masses when the Czarist government collapsed, organized the Petrograd Soviet...
Less than 200 miles of water separates Port Sudan from the Saudi Arabian port of Jidda, which is a 50-mile walk from Mecca. But before the pilgrim may have his passport stamped to cross the Red Sea, he must get through a slough of red tape: pay the British authorities pilgrim fees (later remitted to Saudi Arabia); submit to medical examination; have his arm stabbed with sharp needles against epidemic diseases; pay for his return passage...
...will be admitted to the British market without quota restrictions. Swiss hoteliers rubbed their hands at the prospect of British tourists with enough money to spend a week or more instead of a few days. "A British accent" glowed London's Daily Express, "will no longer be a passport to the worst table in the restaurant...
...throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return to Cairo, where she could file for divorce. (Moslem wives may shed husbands by petitioning the Sharia, the Moslem personal court, for divorce on one of four grounds: infidelity, mistreatment, desertion or impotence.) Naguib had issued her an ordinary passport after a cabled personal appeal from Mme. Sadek, asking him to "help two lonely ladies in a foreign country...
Bermuda, of course, is still the ultimate in enjoyment of spring travel. Parties, dances, and sports tournaments of College Week, convenient proximity to Boston and New York, low priced tours, and no passport requirements make Bermuda truly a paradise isle for spring vacation travelers. A few late reservations are still available through local Bermuda representatives...