Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing the genial host, the U.S. Senate last week laid out a huge welcome mat for foreign tourists anxious to visit the U.S. Passed by the Senate and sent to the House of Representatives for almost certain approval was a bill establishing a United States Travel Service, whose function will be to persuade more foreigners to visit the U.S. Provided with an initial budget of $5,000,000, the national tourist office will open branch offices abroad, work with private business to simplify tour arrangements and hotel accommodations, entice potential visitors with a "Tour the U.S.A." program...
...long, faded-yellow loft building now used for apartments, a few lonely fishing boats, and an occasional tourist are all that remain today of what in better days was one of the world's greatest fishing wharves. Perhaps the only fish people could see at T Wharf in recent years were those they consumed off of the willow pattern china at the Blue Ship Tea Room, a popular seafood restaurant at the tip of the wharf...
...first-class passengers had few complaints about their treatment. The rebel captors of the Santa Maria were mostly young, attractive and very correct. They paid for their own drinks at the ship's bars, danced with thrilled lady tourists, and apparently added a romantic note that made up for the discomforts of water rationing, badly prepared meals, and a growing sloppiness in the ship's housekeeping. The bitterest reports came from the 447 passengers traveling tourist, who not only stifled in their below-deck cabins but were also finally reduced to eating potatoes and beans. Once ashore...
Generally the coffeehouses need the tourist trade, and "There aren't enough tourists who can stand the creeps," as one Chicago host puts it. A Manhattan coffee bin has a sign over the door that says DOGS, BUT NO CATS...
...much for the simple part. The captain, who bears an unfortunate resemblance to people's hero of Latin America, decides to hoist sail. The waves toss, the plot thickens, the romances and intrigues intensify, and the British tourist finds his chill growing worse. The cry "Abandon ship!" is the least of everyone's troubles...