Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President Elpidio Quirino thought he would change all that. For two years no high government official had entered Huk territory without a formidable escort. Quirino made a quick but thorough tour of the disturbed areas, without fanfare and with no other vehicle than his own sleek Packard. In broiling La Paz, he spotted a stooped little man whom he himself, when Secretary of the Interior, had discharged as mayor (for insubordination) twelve years before. From the man's cartridge belt...
...feared that he would miss the simplicity of his snug little villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued his first orders. A lot of the massive furniture was to be taken out; his stacks of books and his plain old desk would be moved...
Cocky little Bobby Riggs used to be the pet villain of tennis fans, but this time he had the gallery-what there was of it-almost on his side. And he had never yet lost a match in Madison Square Garden. He began the tour there five months ago (when 15,114 braved "the big snow" to watch him beat Big Jake Kramer). But last week the score in matches was a lopsided 59 to 19 against...
...popular demand, is an essential for anyone who wants to see the D'Oyly Carte Company at its 1948 best. The latter half of this week sees a return to the Mikado. Then the troupe leaves Boston to spend a few months in Europe before its next American tour...
...coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns from a concert tour. Lisa bears his child, marries rich for his son's sake, tries to make a life for herself-but again, with her next glimpse of the pianist, she abandons everything...