Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the world's newest sovereign power, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last week dispatched his foreign minister, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, on the nonaligned nations' diplomatic equivalent of the American Express Co.'s basic budget tour: the United Nations (to plead for admission), London, Moscow, and a modest selection of Eastern European and Afro-Asian capitals...
...full extent of the disaster. At the airport, the President spoke in drizzling rain to a welcoming committee led by Mayor Victor H. Schiro and Governor John McKeithen. Pledging the full help of the Federal Government ("Human suffering and physical damage are measureless"), he set off on his tour...
Good autobiography is often not so much a self-portrait as a chronicle of the times. Such is Starting Out in the the thirties, a chatty tour of the Depression in New York and the generation of radical writers-John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Clifford Odets, James T. Farrell, Robert Cantwell-who, like Author Kazin, were starting out in the Thirties. An essayist, critic and anthologist (F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Man and His Work; The Portable William Blake), Kazin was born in a Brooklyn slum, the son of an immigrant Polish Jew. He got his first job, as a part-time...
...pregnant Julia Stewart, wife of the Kingston Trio's John Stewart, was nearly trampled when she was jostled to the bedlam floor. C'est la guerre. Flying back to London, the shaggy O.B.E.s relaxed by counting the booty-well over $1,000,000 for a two-week tour in eight cities-and decided that, after all, war was swell...
Individual owners added original touches, too, and a tour of the homes jammed into the triangle of Old Town would turn up hand-carved wooden doors, airy fretwork porticos and everywhere gardens-gardens with roses, gardens with grinning stone cherubs, gardens with piping-satyr fountains...