Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plenty to report. Some items: a $750 million defense contract for a local plant, $4.7 million for a housing project, $285,000 to help convert the old Union Station into a museum. For a number of such boons, he claimed personal credit, notably State Department sponsorship of a world tour by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
Gromyko found L.B.J. racing through a schedule that even by Lyndon's standards was frenetic. He was boning up for his Asian tour, politicking for Democrats, discussing Viet Nam with Laos' Prince Souvanna Phouma and Britain's Foreign Secretary George Brown...
...They seem to regard a tour of duty in Viet Nam as the most challenging, most demanding and most satisfying experience that anyone can find in the world today," says Sam Simpson, chief recruiter for the Agency for International Development's Far East bureau. Indeed, after a tour in Viet Nam, 64% of old AID hands ask to be sent back-a higher percentage of veterans who want to stay on than in any of the 77 other countries with AID missions...
...increasingly nationwide (and international) character of business. In Atlanta, 410 of the U.S.'s 500 largest corporations have branch offices. The local manager, and many employees, of a big-company branch in practically any city may come from Ohio or Oregon, have just finished a five-year tour in New York or have just returned from a refresher course at the head office in Chicago or-more frequently-a spin around the company's foreign plants. Though a Seattle citizen still prides himself on his knowledge of when and where the steelheads are striking, his horizons have been...
...clattered up and down stately Roxas Boulevard as hotels and nightclubs indulged in a hasty face lifting. U.S. Presidential Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers bustled from airport to embassy to Malacanang Palace (the Filipino White House) making arrangements for everything from protocol dinners to a Lyndon-and-Lady Bird tour of nearby Corregidor. Marcos' aides wrote hurried position papers, while his First Lady, lovely Imelda Romualdez Marcos, supervised a hurry-up renovation of the palace itself. The twittering of sparrows in the upper reaches of the palace reception hall was drowned in the rattle of hammers and snarl of saws...