Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church stands high on the summit of this granite rock, and on its west front is the platform, to which the tourist ought first to climb. From the edge of the platform, the eye plunges down, two hundred and thirty-five feet, to the wide sands or the wider ocean, as the tides recede or advance, under an infinite sky, over a restless...
Good Start. Bayeux was hardly touched by the invasion; the Germans got out too fast. In this pleasant tourist town, life is much as it always was, except for the gala display of the Tricolor. But in Bayeux I heard a story that probably reveals the temper of France better than anything else one could see or hear in isolated Normandy. A young man who had come from Paris three days before the invasion said that there, all the young people are mad for jazz music and the young men now wear zoot suits. He understood that this...
...stinking decks of ships being raised from Pearl Harbor; and when he lunched with a group of nurses, "the least composed person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander at quiet Guadalcanal, rode around uneventfully on a destroyer, slept comfortably a few nights in a Noumea hut "between sheets that had covered some well-known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press to watch the New Georgia show. Everywhere he went...
Mexico City may become the Western Hemisphere's musical capital. It has the money (tourist and refugee); it has the ambition; and it has an elaborate program...
Pokryshkin, eloquent only when he talks flying, drinks little, eats and sleeps much. Superstitious, he will not be photographed before a flight. Six months ago he married a Red WAC at the front. On furloughs Pokryshkin goes to Moscow for a round of theaters and tourist sights (he has been seen gawking at the Moscow subway's new, resplendent stations). After the war he wants to be a plane designer...