Word: toure
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Although the general, who directed the lab, had been unimpressed with the findings on paper at first, his attitudes changed slightly a few months after the censorship controversy, when he took a tour of the laboratory. During the visit, Roth demonstrated the effect of the female sex attractant, or pheromone, on the male roach...
Last week a delegation from the Washington-based International Center for Development Policy, a left-of-center think tank, paid a private visit to the ravaged country. Robert E. White, a former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, headed the tour. Over the span of a week, the group visited Kabul and Mazar-i- Sharif, a surprisingly peaceful city of more than 100,000 people on Afghanistan's border with the Soviet Union. One stop on the I.C.D.P. tour was a large, blue-tiled mosque, where about 1,500 men listened as a stooped, aged mullah read from the Koran. When...
With slight smiles of bemusement, the locals in Pelopi show off the property where the Dukakis house once stood, the village register where the Dukakis births are listed, and . . . Well, that about sums up the tour. Pelopi is an unassuming village, not given to ostentation over potential Presidents -- at least not yet. "If he wins, and I don't die first, maybe we'll put up a plaque for him," wisecracks Iacovos Manolis, 81, who built his house on top of the ruins of the Dukakis homestead...
...sure he got the right one, and the pathetic people who kill entire families on purported instruction from God. Thus it is scant surprise that the Macbeth that opened on Broadway last week used up three directors, two sets and five Macduffs during a six-city tryout tour...
Several Palestinian leaders immediately blamed the Israelis for the assassination. Bassam Abu Sharif, the spokesman for P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, charged that Israeli leaders, frustrated by their inability to quell the Palestinian uprisings, had decided to "liquidate" senior P.L.O. members. Arafat, on a tour of the gulf states in search of support for the protest activities, was described as badly shaken by the slaying of his heir apparent...