Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen next day the Duke & Duchess were cordial, diplomatic, blandly evasive. With a tactful eye to U. S. tourist trade, the Duchess hoped that a "great many Americans will come to the Bahamas." The Duke talked of a visit to the U. S., quipped: "The highest building when I was there last was the Woolworth. That's dating...
Mornings and afternoons the missionaries met at the Sacred Grove, where towheaded Joe Smith had his first vision in 1820. Between sessions they could stroll down the lane to a low. white frame farmhouse. Like ten thousand other farm houses in the U. S. it had a sign TOURISTS. Its distinction is that there for $1 a tourist may sleep in the very bedroom where, according to the sober belief of 750.000 respectable people, an angel of God first appeared to a divinely chosen prophet...
...typical Japanese named "Mr. Suzuki" and "Mr. Watanabe," whom he uses to serve as the personification of Rising Sun arrogance. Especially embarrassing to the Japanese is his comment on the arrival in Shanghai of U. S. visitors who go to the East as guests of the Japanese Board of Tourist Industry. Announcing how much it has cost the Japs to bring out each visitor, he points out to the newcomers that the New Order in Asia can be seen at its best in the Shanghai badlands, where opium is sold openly...
Meanwhile commercial-minded Bahamians gleefully awaited the arrival of the royal couple. With the sponge-fishing industry severely curtailed by disease, the islands are almost completely dependent on the tourist trade, which has slimmed down greatly since outbreak of war disrupted ship schedules to Nassau. But shopkeepers confidently expected the headline appeal of their new rulers to attract lucrative swarms of romantic-minded sightseers...
...influential generals of doubtful loyalty; and General Almazán has gallantly availed himself of this tradition. From Cárdenas he got lucrative concessions to build railroads, hotels, villages, roads (among them sections of the great Pan American Highway). He opened up slack Acapulco as a tourist resort. While his rival Camacho was suppressing Cedillo, Almazán took a handsome cut of the bandit's swag. Now a very rich man who lives in a flashy, gringo-haunted eyrie high above Monterrey, Almazán is tall, heavy but trim from swimming and riding. With his hazel...