Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kings resting place, shown in packed museums around the world, have inspired countless designers of art, jewelry, fashion and frippery over the decades. The current exhibition, the "Treasures of Tutankhamun," may well have been viewed by 7 million Americans by the time it concludes a threeyear, seven-city tour of the U.S. in San Francisco next September...
...joking and laughter were gone. In Bacon County you did not curse "the sun or the rain or the land or God. They were all the same thing." To have lived there and known that was something Crews had forgotten--something the pop sociologists, fresh from one tour down Interstate 20, never understood--but he knew it again and would always know it. We are fortunate he has taken the time to explain...
...mostly stayed within the confires of his San Clemente retreat, but in recent months he has shown signs of a re-emergence into public, if not political, life that is most distressing. Starting with his appearance in Hydin, Ky. this summer and extending to his current European tour, Nixon has demonstrated his pathetic need to be in the spotlight again, to gain the "forgiveness" of the American people for his Watergate excesses...
...Confronted with an urgent need for imported petroleum, the Premier flies off to the Middle East to cement Italy's relations with the oil-producing states. After a four-country tour, he succeeds in fostering several economic deals with Libya and Iraq...
Educational Theorist John Holt, author of Why Children Fail, used to tour the lecture circuit trying to persuade elementary and secondary schools to ease rigid rules and cut red tape. No longer. Despairing of reform within the nation's educational establishment, Holt has now decided to proselytize among parents, urging them to keep their children out of school and teach them at home...