Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who run the Superdome are unfettered by petty considerations, and see the Dome in broader, less mundane terms. If you go on a tour of the Dome a tape broadcast over its public address system will tell you that it is "more than a building or a stadium or a hall," that it is "the depository of Louisiana's belief in itself and a budding, exhilarating, moving certainty that tomorrow can be now." Like the Seven Wonders of the World, the tape tells you, "it is a monument to man's daring imagination, ingenuity, and intelligence--awesome in size...
...gazing out into the cavern. The size of the place and its frightening newness and emptiness and the reverent tones of the voice on the tape have lulled newcomers into a punchy stupor, and they wander around obediently. People who work at the Superdome are more jaded, and the tour guides tell each other jokes and surreptitiously play the radio. Dazed-looking construction workers and officious security guards wander through the press box and box seats and field, but the place is so huge that they all seem to know they couldn't possibly get anything done there, and they...
...predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke regain his flight status, predicted doctors, but America's oldest active astronaut should be well enough to join Stafford and Brand on a tour of the Soviet Union later this month...
...Tournaments have sprouted so fast that the most ardent fans get fouled up trying to keep track of who is playing whom, and where, and when. Last winter alone, World Championship Tennis had two and even three tournaments going at once. No. 1 Player Connors played on yet another tour while the women trekked along on their own circuit. And there has been no relief. Since May, World Team Tennis has horned in to compete against an already crowded schedule of traditional tournaments...
...quake in the summer of 1969, the Chinese observed that in the Tientsin zoo, the swans abruptly left the water, a Manchurian tiger stopped pacing in his cage, a Tibetan yak collapsed, and a panda held its head in its paws and moaned. On his return from the China tour, USGS's Barry Raleigh learned that horses had behaved skittishly in the Hollister area before the Thanksgiving Day quake. "We were very skeptical when we arrived in China regarding animal behavior," he says. "But there may be something...