Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps nowhere else in the U.S. are the makings of this latest war shaped so fully within sight of a past American battleground. No tourist may now climb to the top of Bunker Hill's grey shaft: he might see too much going on in the Charlestown Navy Yard below. Once it required a poet's fancy to make the shots at Concord's rude bridge heard round the world. Now, ten miles away, ammunition is being fashioned that will literally be heard the world around...
...Guerra, Fame, Distruzione." Sulphurous lava, 2,500° F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge. Glowing boulders rattled from the mainstream, set orchards and vineyards afire. The flood engulfed the village of San Sebastiano: first a stone house, then the yellow school and the little church, finally the wineshop...
...Hell. The situation had become almost a national scandal. The majority of the war-working U.S. didn't give a hoot for all the vacationers' sufferings. Rhode Island waxed so wroth over the stranded-tourist situation that its State Senate passed a resolution condemning Florida for withholding gas for return, trips. (Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath canceled a hard-won reservation at Miami Beach's swank Roney Plaza...
There followed days of shame for Austrians. Thousands joined the Germans in surging mobs, shouting, smashing windows, burning books, beating Jews. In the German Tourist Office stood a portrait of the Führer, lit by candles. Thousands of delirious worshippers filed by while other thousands stood back in silent horror...
...Tourist-German, for "Two dishes of tea, please...