Word: round-the-world
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...administrative say-so on Okinawa, the onetime Japanese possession that the U.S. military still occupies. Sato may also protest U.S. restrictions on Japanese textiles and renew Japan's long-pending -and so far unsuccessful-request for air rights over the U.S. to complete Japan Air Lines' round-the-world route...
Suppose there were hotels for children, where parents could park their offspring and take a day off, or a week in the country -or a round-the-world cruise -secure in the knowledge that the children would have expert care, careful supervision, and a wonderful time? Europe has had such hotels for years...
Porter found his songs wherever he went. Once in Samoa, on a round-the-world cruise, he saw a native dance that had a rhythm too insistent to be forgotten. Back aboard ship, he turned it into Begin the Beguine. A few mornings later, Monty Woolley, who was traveling in Porter's party, stepped out on deck in his pajamas and greeted the day, saying: "It's delovely." Porter thought the line was delightful. Delicious, in fact. Delirious. Delimit...
...from the column to my book on the Greek Bronze Age. Consequently, I went back to my regular work about as stale as one of those pieces of 3,000-year-old bread that they sometimes find in Egyptian tombs. Then last spring I made an extremely taxing round-the-world reporting trip. After getting back from Saigon in mid-May, I was never really well, and this general misery crystallized into an interminable bout of summer flu and bronchitis that made this year's holiday from the column the opposite of restorative...
Advertised as "a James Bond tour of the world's 14 most sinful cities," this book is, instead, possibly the year's most flagrant fake. Five years ago, the London Sunday Times asked Author Fleming to take a round-the-world tour to write some local-color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom...