Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About here Walter Barbknecht, seeing that a visitor's head was spinning, offered a tour of town. "Orville's real proud of this sidewalk," the tour began, then abruptly turned conspiratorially candid. "The restaurant inspector is giving us a bad time. They want us to make the doors to the restrooms bigger, for the handicapped. And shields over the lights. Tiddly things. They don't want fluorescent bulbs to break over the food. We did our own plumbing and wiring, just volunteers. We have a good plumber, but he doesn't have a license, so they're hacking on that...
Student Kimberly Mestrom took the audience on a flight attendant-style tour of the elevators in a questionable high-rise building, pointing out the safety features and wryly noting their futility...
...nearing retirement age in the mid-1970s when he decided that the fight against abortion was as important as the effort to save lives on the operating table. A devout evangelical Christian, Koop poured out his prolife passions in two books, five educational films and a nationwide lecture tour. His style of argument was anything but dispassionate: in one film segment, Koop looked over a sea of naked dolls symbolizing aborted fetuses, and proclaimed, "I am standing on the site of Sodom, the place of evil and death...
...Lini dislikes Libya. Indeed, his Vanua'aku Party reportedly plans to send 70 political activists to Tripoli for paramilitary training. Two smaller groups have already made the trip. When Vernon Walters, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, arrived in Port-Vila a month ago during a South Pacific tour, security men were alarmed to find the two Libyans registered at the same hotel as the ambassador...
...only tour guide you can turn on and off, regulate the volume of, and then store in your back pocket...