Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's special election, Democrats not only failed to make the major gains they expected in the house; their strength even dropped a fraction to 23%. In the senate, Demo cratic membership fell from 43% to a mere 20%. Massachusetts-born Hoff, who was on a State Department tour of Europe and Asia for all but the last week of the campaign, called it a "horrendous defeat." Penny-wise Vermonters had plainly responded to G.O.P. National Committeewoman Consuelo Bailey's charge: "This Governor's been spending the way Johnson does in Washington. Some of the bonding people...
...Which at that was not so far from the position taken by New York's peripatetic Junior Senator Bobby Kennedy, who during a three-week Latin American tour has been drawing student cheers by calling the original U.S. Dominican intervention "a mistake...
...Liesbeth reported in her school paper: "One of us said, 'Of course you always managed to keep that unbeatable smile,' but the princess answered with a gesture like 'Sometimes I would like to wring their necks.' " Beatrix steamed on, describing a recent beam-and-wave tour: "There they stood, the little scoundrels. Their fists were clenched to throw sacks of confetti right in our faces-hard. The same with the flowers. And then you see the little faces of the kids, with their really mean expressions." Some people thought that was a rather mean expression...
...psychiatrist, Coles' original interest was in pathology in situations of abnormal stress, and his first work was on families where children had been stricken with polio. During an Air Force tour of duty in Mississippi, Coles' range of concern widened. Struck by the dramatic collapse of a social and psychological way of life, he turned to study white and Negro children, along with their parents and teachers, under the heavy strains of school desegregation. He wanted to see how people managed the exertion of exchanging old ways of life for new ones. He refused to polarize his compassion, seeing...
...remembers his older brother Brian was made fun of by his football teammates. Brian was an introspective second-string quarterback who spent most of high school fooling with guitars, recorders, and saxophones. Never lukewarm or moderate about any topic, Dennis considers Brian a genius. Brian skipped this road tour, Dennis explains, to finish writing some new songs...