Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David Carr Sr., vice president of the Councils, showed him her knees which she had bruised slipping in a puddle, he made no audible reply. When one constituent kissed him and dozens squealed happily, he just braced himself. When sightseeing buses finally took the 800 off on a tour of the city, including the zoo, he walked away steadily and surely...
Then he returned to Korea for a whirlwind tour which made one correspondent who had been on Wendell Willkie's train in 1940 gasp: "Damned if this isn't the same thing...
Then he got ready to swing off on a four-week, coast-to-coast speaking tour. For this, the advance noise was already terrific. Hollywood Bowl officials started most of it by canceling a Wallace speech on the shaky excuse that they did not want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...
...vicar was shocked. For three months, on a hop-skip-&-jump tour of the U.S., he had talked to young people about their morals. Last week, back home at London's Holy Trinity Church, the Rev. Bryan Green shocked his congregation. "The morals of American students are deplorable," he said. "In the state universities at least 90% of the men students and 69% of the women have sex relations outside marriage. Intimacy between high-school students is very common...
...more, Frank Strong and Jud Gale have never before rowed in competition at Harvard. Captain Bob Stone and Stu Clark, at four and two, have returned to the Bolles fold with only service on the 1942 Freshman crew behind them. Stroke Frank Cunningham's only Charles River tour of duty was with the 150's before the war. Dick Emmet rowed with the war-time informals...