Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracy" practiced by China's Communists in the strategic northwest, vacated by the Japanese more than a year ago, has seemingly ended in a political mistake rivaling their military failure. This is a conclusion hard to escape after a strenuous plane, truck and rail tour of the Chahar Shansi-Suiyuan border region...
...moved to New Mexico, established a cult devoted to nature, Indian lore and Indian dancing. In tribal dress, he lectured daily, worked on unfinished books, built an adobe castle as a museum shrine. When he died, he was planning a 10,000-mile lecture tour...
...police were startled to find a signed Utrillo hanging on the wall. That started them on the trail of what may be the biggest ring of art forgers in recent years. Last week Paris cops nabbed the artist who forged the Utrillos. She was one Mme. Juliette Claude La Tour-"Zizi" to her Montmartre friends...
...most routine of journeys. The world was fed up with heroes, and he was returning to the scenes of his triumph only 17 months after the dramatic moment of victory. But almost as soon as he landed in England three weeks ago, his trip evolved into a triumphal tour such as few Americans had ever experienced...
Uncle Joe never spared himself either. Son of a Yonkers doctor-businessman, he had been an underweight (140-lb.) quarterback at West Point ('04), returned to the Academy after a tour in the Philippines to coach the cadets in French and Spanish. On the Western Front in 1918 Major Stilwell saw plenty of action as a G-2 staff officer. He scoffed at the Distinguished Service Medal he received, said that medals were for the combat infantrymen...