Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actually planned for sometime between D plus 30 and D plus 60. His sappers and bridging equipment had not arrived, but he commandeered every boat, plank and carpenter for miles around, and put 10,000 men and 3,000 trucks across the river in 48 hours. He repeated this tour de force when he crossed the Rhine...
Last week many Americans were getting their first good look at the subtly romantic, hilarious and nightmare worlds of Paul Klee. The largest Klee exhibit ever to be shown in the U.S. was in Portland, Ore., on the second lap of a transcontinental tour. At the San Francisco Museum of Art it had broken attendance records for the year...
...months later, wearing a gingham dress, flat shoes and no makeup, Mindy landed a singing spot at New Rochelle's Glen Island Casino. In December 1946, Paul Whiteman signed her, took her on a nationwide tour with his National Guard radio show...
...week was at the stodgy old Royal Society of Arts. Strictly for the hot weather, the society had assembled 162 cartoons and sketches, by 50 artists, chosen to reflect the British sense of humor. Princess Elizabeth, in cool green and white, gave the show a royal launching with a tour of inspection that covered a century and a half of evidence...
...four weeks of interviews, the 13 correspondents in the U.S. press party were too tired even to play poker. Homeward-bound on the KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) Constellation Franeker, they were in no mood for the kind of horseplay that had brightened an earlier leg of their Indonesian tour, when Nat Barrows of the Chicago Daily News whipped out some scissors and trimmed the luxuriant locks of the Houston Post's James Branyan, while two other newsmen held him down...