Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson achieves a tour de force when he makes Adrienne rehearse what she'll tell her psychiatrist, then "jump-cuts" forward to the appointment, where we hear her conclude the recital aloud. Very effective in that passage is the use of telegraphic, abbreviated, highly substantive language to convey Adrienne's thought...
Last Thursday morning, in his hospital room President Johnson asked former President Eisenhower to make a goodwill tour of Asia next spring. If the General makes the tour, he will probably express his support of the Administration's Vietnam policy with the desired effect of convincing friend and foe alike that the American people--Republicans and Democrats--are solidly behind the President. In the President's mind, this move should make it abundantly clear to both Hanoi and our Asian allies that the defeat of many Democrats in the mid-term elections does not bely any widespread popular disaffection with...
...Hara readers can confidently expect to be taken on a guided tour of a world where things happen. The language is clean and terse, and the code is more often amoral than immoral. Most O'Hara people live by the venerable adage, "If I don't do it, someone else will." Thus James Hatter has few compunctions about sleeping with his best friend's wife, and Starlet Natica Jackson even fewer about destroying a neighbor's marriage. A bitchy British countess in Hollywood sums up: "After all, everyone's naughty when the door is closed...
...tour ended its last European stop in Belgrade, the travelers met to discuss for two hours what they had seen, what they thought, and how their views had changed. There was no consensus, but all agreed that their deep immersion in a critical area of the world would not be forgotten...
...Queen Victoria and her death in 1901. The reader may well say "gadzooks" about the first volume of the life of Churchill by his son Randolph, which goes back even farther. Churchill, then 26, missed Queen Victoria's funeral (he was in Winnipeg winding up a profitable lecture tour); there would not be a greater one in London until his own death 64 years later...