Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I first arrived in Vientiane, I went to the Government Tourist Office to get a map of the city. At 10 a.m. when I arrived at the dilapidated Tourist Office, I found the door open but no one inside. I was tired and sat down to read a book I had with me. About half an hour later, a man in a coat and tie arrived, smiled at me politely and said hello. I responded likewise and asked if he had a map of the city. He responded, "No speak English, sorry." I repeated the question in French, which...
...been asked to fill the vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...
Making Friends. A visit to China in 1926 as a tourist extended into a permanent stay when Chen realized that he "had come home." He was given a post in the Nationalist foreign ministry, of which his father, Eugene Chen, was the head. He became increasingly disenchanted with the inability of the Nationalists to cope with China's "15th century conditions" and gave his support to the Communists. In 1947, he established a private law practice in Hong Kong...
Harvard came back feeling like the tourist who has had his billfold, watch, and cufflinks removed by skillful fingers, only to be mugged on the way to the airport...
...began in the 1870s, when a young tourist named Mary Brown bought a little ivory lute in a shop in Florence. Aided by her indulgent husband, a New York banker, she went on to amass an incredibly diverse collection of no fewer than 3,390 musical instruments. By the time she died in 1918 at the age of 76, she had turned them over to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the Met, alas, had no place to display them permanently; so they moldered in storage for more than half a century...