Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST day I visited some people, and learned about elementary school classmates. My first-grade homeroom has produced a certified color consultant, a PGA golf-tour hopeful, two or three nursing-school students, a future doctor, the homecoming queen and king, the captain of the high school varsity basketball team, and the president of the Future Homemakers of America (who happens to be male...
...telling them, "You guys have a tough job. Please hang in there." Most other bishops emphasized the friendly, nonconfrontational atmosphere at the San Fernando meeting. But in their comments they pointedly left for another day how they would apply the Pope's stern admonitions. As he completed his second tour of the U.S., there was speculation that John Paul, now 67, would never again attempt so strenuous and grand a crosscontinental visit...
...they are right, Shultz and Shevardnadze can devote much of their time in Moscow next month to setting the date for a summit and the itinerary for a possible Gorbachev tour of the U.S. American officials think the most probable time will be mid-to-late November. While the summit proper will presumably be held in Washington, it apparently remains undecided whether Gorbachev will want to go anywhere else...
Those allegations are part of a disturbing report submitted to the Pentagon by a special committee studying the treatment of women serving in the Navy and Marines in the Pacific. After a two-week tour of naval bases in Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, the investigators concluded that in both services "the encouragement of a macho-male image contributes to behavior that is at best inappropriate and at worst morally repugnant." Both men and women in the Navy and Marines sometimes demand sexual favors from lower-ranking servicewomen, the investigators found...
...crowds during his ten- day U. S. tour were sometimes surprisingly thin, and his speeches were sometimes wooden, but John Paul left behind the clearest statement yet of his desire to rein in an unruly American flock. A "good Catholic," he declared, is not free to follow his own conscience in place of the traditional moral teachings of the church...