Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gathered to hear their President, Archbishop Makarios. With theatrical gestures and a tone of moral outrage, he denounced the coup attempt by Greek extremists that a year ago had led directly to the Turkish occupation of almost half of the island and the shattering of the then quiescent Mediterranean tourist paradise...
...anecdotal; the land is hard-staring and unrelenting. Our trip is over; we have only to find its end. We rise early the next morning and putter up to Yellowstone, across the Wyoming desert. Between the sear, hard-sapped breasts of the Wind River Indian Reservation we tourist, listening to the sweet harmonies of Judith Collins over the sagebrush-bearded grandmother's chest of the land. Black pumps tap reservoir's of crude, titting the dinosaur-jawed, stone-ribbed poundings of the earth. A few junkyards--abundant with rotting cars--decorated the roadside, but no Indians...
...country's economy has been badly affected by the three rounds of violence, a flight of capital appears to be under way, and most businessmen consider the 1975 tourist season a dead loss. Beyond all that, the internecine bloodshed has shattered the morale of the dynamic city, which has become the financial capital of the Arab world...
...tourist economy of the Grenadines-and even of more "developed" areas, like the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands-is much affected by chartering. Hotels and restaurants on the more remote islands depend entirely on the nights yachtsmen pass ashore, and last year bareboaters spent at least $3 million during their port stops. All the same, shore facilities tend to be primitive, and there is no need to sleep or eat on land. The boats come self-sufficient: overhauled, clean, tanked up, stocked with food...
...great crises occur: the snorkeling on the coral (especially in the Tobago Cays, an underwater reserve) is among the best in the Caribbean; jack and pompano bite in the shallows, the sun shines all day and plops into the ocean with a green flash straight out of a tourist leaflet; and on island after island the beaches are empty, not yet speckled with condominiums. Privacy is the reward of bareboating-not to mention a new and addictive confidence about sailing...