Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the individuals were gifted and the record was still a ways above .500, Harvard women's tennis was still in the tourist section as far as Ivy tennis was concerned...
...foreign tourist, a species once limited to corporate tycoons and wandering rock stars, is abroad in the land. Direct flights from Tokyo to San Francisco are booked solid for the next three weeks, and the number of Japanese visitors to Las Vegas now runs to about 5,000 a month. In New York City, arriving Europeans want to see Times Square and Harlem and then fly south to Disney World. All this activity represents not just world prosperity but also the swooning collapse of the once almighty dollar, which has sunk 7% against the yen and 10.5% against the Swiss...
During the Wimbledon tennis matches, one of the most popular meeting places for the American players and their wives was a coin laundry just off trendy Carnaby Street. Americans balked at the high cost of sending their laundry out. One tourist, in fact, was arrested for trying to escape from a London laundry without paying his bill. He claimed that the cost of the washing exceeded the value of his clothes. The magistrate told him to check prices beforehand...
...faded so badly as in Japan, where it has shrunk by 40% in a year. Confronted with a $2.50 can of beer, a $5 breakfast or a $30 minute-steak lunch, Americans beat a hasty retreat?"chuckling in amazement," says a shopkeeper on Tokyo's Ginza. Says a veteran tourist who is staying at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, where the cheapest room for two is $80 a night: "It's just plain scandalous. I never thought I'd see the day when the greenback would turn into Mickey Mouse money. It really hurts my pride as an American...
Like a well-heeled tourist cashing in on the good will of the locals, China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng seemed almost reluctant to end his sojourn in the Balkans. Both in Yugoslavia last week and Rumania the week before, the Chinese leader got a warm reception-and spent far more time per country than is customary for visiting heads of state. As if emboldened by the friendship he was finding at the Kremlin's doorstep, Hua missed no opportunity to cast calculated aspersions on Moscow. The Soviet press responded with a few choice phrases...