Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keep on being a tourist, Sam. The intelligent American tourist is a greatly underrated creature...
...into the country where, he found, the farther he got from Russia's bureau cratic capital the more freely and eagerly people talked to him. Elsewhere, in the ensuing 16 countries he visited, Welles followed the same plan: get a car and start motoring, gather your impressions tourist-style by avoiding the good hotels in the capital cities, stop wherever things look interesting and ask questions...
...sending the road a taunting advance notice, he successfully robbed three U.P. trains in 1916, had a price of $11,500 on his head and 1,000 men hunting him before he was captured and sent to prison for life. Paroled in 1932, he went straight, now runs a tourist camp near Laramie...
...Kentucky tourist attraction, Big Red outdrew Mammoth Cave. Two million people visited Faraway Farm just to see him. He was made an honorary citizen of the city of Lexington. On his birthdays, he was given elaborate cakes with carrot candles. Stablehands reportedly did a brisk business selling hairs out of his tail to superstitious horse-players. For Man o' War was the greatest of all U.S. race horses...
...important issues of the day are those involving conflict among the U.S., Britain, and Russia. While it may be too much to expect that the U.N. should resolve these conflicts, if must at least be able to live with them. Otherwise, Finishing Meadows will join Geneva as just another tourist attraction...