Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carried to an extreme, of course, the policy would set arbitrary itineraries for American travelers--shopping sprees in depressed areas, careful avoidance of neutralist or "immoral" nations. In its present phase the Dullesian doctrine entails only punitive measures--passport seizure--for those who defy passport restrictions...
Like a number of the unspoken rights Americans have continued to take for granted, the right to a passport has only recently been constricted. It has nearly reached the point where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where a liberal does of moral DDT has been applied...
...Ozark pixy in Harry S. Truman got the better of him when he surprised Stanley Woodward, his old chief of protocol at the State Department, by meeting him aboard the Ille de France on Woodward's return from Europe and playfully having an official misinform him that his passport had been canceled. After the laughter (mostly Harry's) had subsided, Truman continued his week's visit in Manhattan at a nostalgic, noon-to-twilight reunion luncheon (shrimps, lobster, steak) of members and staff of the Senate's World War II committee to investigate the national defense...
...screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about witch-hunting, the atom bomb, freedom ("There's no freedom here . . . They don't give you a passport"). The Committee on Un-American Activities has named the boy's parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends and are sentenced to two years in prison. Finally, fed up with FBI "persecution" of the boy, the king decides...
...hair, but he had just shaved his scalp for a cool vacation, and the toupee had nothing to cling to. So Fire-Horse Sparks rushed off without it, had a hair-curling time persuading Hong Kong immigration officials that he was really the fur-bearing man pictured on his passport. Snorted Sparks last week: "I don't see now why I was in such a hurry." Indeed, it looked as if Sparks's hair would have plenty of time to grow back before he and a dozen other newsmen, comfortably beached in Hong Kong, would actually get into...