Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contract to report their stories in Life, the magazine has adopted the space program. While NASA's officials and the astronauts themselves seem a bit embarrassed by space jargon, Life' men talk enthusiastically of "birds," "aborts," and so on. Last spring they had given a party of businessmen a tour of the Cape, Houston's Manned Space Center and some of the country's other space facilities. Impressed by their guests' enthusiasm, they had now invited 25 college editors to watch James Borman and Frank Lovell blast off in the Gemini...
...readying herself for the rigors of a long winter's tour-and the chill of discrimination. "Some people don't like girls whose eyes slant and whose skin is different looking," she says resignedly, "but I just wish they would kick me out of their hotels before I've unpacked my bags...
...earnestly as if they were covering the theft of the Mono. Lisa. Woodward kept his subject in perspective, cutting everyone down to size with his sardonic sense of humor. When Dan Ferris retired as executive secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union in 1962, Woodward expressed unabashed pleasure. "As a tour conductor of American athletes abroad, Ferris ranked with Mike Quill's newest subway guard...
...when Sims finally speaks, it is hardly a reprieve. He is contemptuous of reporters and of the general public; he has toyed with both since he arrived here two days ago on a fund-raising tour. At his press conference Wednesday, a newsman asked, "Have you ever been arrested...
...unless the inhabitants of Llareggub, Thomas's imaginary Welsh backwater, retain their basic dignity. We follow them through a typical spring day -- eavesdropping as they dream, work, gossip, wish, torment one another, and frolic in the hay -- and almost everyone is bizarre and funny. But the purpose of the tour is to change our minds, to make us see the human beings behind the aberrations. If our feelings don't change and deepen, if automatic laughter doesn't yield to compassion, then Under Milk Wood is just a freak show...