Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then Congress was suddenly and humbly intent on learning about atomic power, was sweating at the very thought of legislating about it. The Committee on Atomic Energy of the Senate started an A-B-C course in nuclear physics, planned to tour the Oak Ridge project in Tennessee. In the House, 60 Congressmen hurried to hear lectures by atomic scientists half their age, listened in absolute stillness. At week's end it was evident that there would be no legislation on atomic power for a while-perhaps months. Congress was starting all over again...
...butt in hand-to-hand combat. The Raiders went on to Guadalcanal and there, during Carlson's famous 30-day patrol behind enemy lines, among other feats Smith knocked out two machine-gun nests and choked one Jap to death. Willing to volunteer for anything, he served a tour as an aerial gunner ("I wasn't doing anything at the time") and shot down two planes...
From Shanghai last week, after a tour of liberated China, LIFE Correspondent Charles J. V. Murphy cabled...
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, back from a tour of bombed Jap cities, pined for more distant latitudes: "The thing I'd like to do most is go back to the South Pole...
...Scoutmastering. He became a crack combat correspondent, got out the first story of the landing on Tarawa-and was threatened with court-martial for writing that "something suddenly appeared to have gone wrong." He covered eight Marine landings, then was sent home on a war-bond tour...