Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Constitution Square. But there were few other patriotic demonstrations. Banks closed as they have before each recent domestic political crisis. Traffic jams occurred as Greeks left their jobs early to stock up on foodstuffs. Stores that were sold out of coffee, sugar and other staples locked their doors. Tourist attractions, including the Acropolis sound and light show, were canceled. The airport was closed, and the Athens telephone system was jammed by panicky foreign visitors...
...mistake Bennett Kremen, a New York journalist who a couple of years ago had become, he says, "uncertain of what America had become," avoided. Kremen took off for a few months in search of the real America, having decided beforehand that "to pass through the country like a tourist with a tape recorder and a journalist's notebook would simply prove worthless." Instead, Kremen went hitchhiking around, spending a few weeks as a factory worker, a few in college towns, a stint in the South and a time living with blacks. His intentions were purely noble, but he made...
...that the Belgian King was giving for NATO leaders. Spotting friendly crowds, the President, disregarding both his phlebitis and the usual dictates of protocol, decided to walk instead of ride the two long blocks to the Royal Palace and shake hands with the people who lined the way. A tourist couple from Georgia gave a word of cheer from home-"God bless you. We are for you"-and the President lingered to find out that they lived near the Okefenokee Swamp. "I know where it is," he told them, adding: "Dry it out." The royal band, which had expected...
Dadd's mental collapse had taken place in Egypt (hence, presumably, his "possession" by Osiris), where in 1842 he had gone as traveling artist and companion to a doughty Victorian tourist named Sir Thomas Phillips. The exotic vistas dumbfounded Dadd. "The excitement of these scenes," he wrote to a painter friend in England, "has been enough to turn the brain . . . and often I have lain down at night with my imagination so full of wild vagaries that I have really and truly doubted my own sanity . . . for I've got opened my mind...
...story is told in flashback as Pip, now in his 50s, returns to a home town circled by trailers and transformed by "the telly and the transistor, the small car and the tourist agencies." The author's moral: They don't make small towns the way they used to. Delderfield died in 1972. But as long as his books flourish, nobody will be able to say that about the novel...