Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the quaint days when rock 'n' roll was young, parents used to get all shook up over the hip-swiveling antics and soulful squeals of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and other rock pioneers. Now Graceland is a venerable tourist attraction, and good golly, Miss Molly, Little Richard is whooping his way through an album of children's songs...
...thought at first it was a doll's head," says Helmut Simon, the German tourist who spotted the Iceman on Sept. 19, 1991, while on an Alpine walking trip with his wife. On closer inspection, however, they realized that the head and shoulders protruding from the Similaun glacier were human, and seeing a hole in back of the skull, suspected foul play. Hurrying to a hikers' shelter to report their find, they set in motion a series of blunders that nearly deprived the world of a priceless treasure...
...nicknamed him "Oetzi" (after the Oetztaler Alps). Thousands of people worldwide have written to express their interest or profess kinship. Some claim to have communicated with him, while several women, unaware of the Iceman's castration, have volunteered to be impregnated with his sperm. In South Tyrol, a small tourist industry, replete with T shirts, pamphlets and escorted hikes to the recovery site, is already flourishing. And proud provincial officials are planning to build a museum around the Iceman and display him in some sort of refrigerated showcase...
...Clinton's trip to Moscow, he said he paid his own way and "was mostly just a tourist." Clinton had plenty of company: 40,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union in 1970 as detente was becoming a popular word...
...questioned Clinton's patriotism while piously denying that he was doing so. The President wondered aloud why Clinton, who was then attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, went to Moscow in 1970 and whom he saw there. Clinton says he visited, for all of a week, "mostly as a tourist." The assault quickly backfired, and Bush stopped mentioning Moscow. On Sunday night, though, he persisted in attacking Clinton for helping organize demonstrations by Americans in London against the Vietnam War. Clinton, who had earlier quoted Bush's inaugural plea for Americans to put the divisions of Vietnam behind them, compared...