Word: tour
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...family enterprise. Cells often contain cousins, brothers, husbands and wives. José, raised in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, was deeply influenced by an uncle ("A man I would die for") who was active in the independence movement. After a street-corner childhood and a Navy tour that ended with a jail sentence, José developed a "total lack of respect" for the U.S. and migrated to Puerto Rico...
Even before sponsoring his illustrious Pro-Am, Crosby had hosted a tournament known as the Rancho Santa Fe Open as early as 1936. In 1937, his first year on the pro circuit, Sam Snead won the Rancho Santa Fe for his second tour victory. When someone showed "Slamming Sammy" a photograph of himself in the New York Times, he blurted, "How'd they ever get my picture? I ain't never been to New York...
...election, he had to be hospitalized for inflammation of the heart membrane. Begin's physician, Dr. Shlomo Laniado, says his patient is again suffering from aftereffects of the March heart attack. His latest hospitalization followed an extremely active week in which Begin's schedule included a daylong tour of Yamit, one of Israel's new towns in northern Sinai, and a tension-filled meeting with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis, in which Begin was informed in advance of the joint U.S.-Soviet statement. In a TV interview early last week, Laniado flatly blamed Begin's current illness...
...reality, it was not a political tour at all, in the usual sense, but the first leg of the Moshe Dayan road show to Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Ostensibly, Israel's Foreign Minister was raising money for the United Jewish Appeal; in fact, he was mobilizing support for Israel in its latest spat with...
...acquaintance of several English tongues, Partridge was born into the proper English of New Zealand and was introduced to Australian slang as a student at the University of Queensland. He later served with the Australian army in World War I-thereby learning the military idiom-before ending his linguistic tour in the rarefied dialect of Oxford. To fill in the gaps, he relies on an extended network of correspondents. They also keep him abreast of changes that "on balance, I should say are to the good." He particularly likes "wonderful American expressions such as skyscraper" but dislikes the "pitiable" sociopsychological...