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Word: tourister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tourist industry has a stranglehold on the economy. Regular industry is discouraged. Many like myself have had to move to neighboring states to find decent employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1978 | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken by a British tourist with an Instamatic concealed in a pack of cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Tragic Princess | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...BEGINS "The Silky Veils of Ardor," the last song on Joni Mitchell's newest album, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. Throughout her career, Mitchell has been traveling--a hitcher, a wanderer, a tourist, a pilgrim with no destination. Her albums are not so much a chronicle of her travels as a portrait of the traveler. And the traveler is slowly, sadly, desperately slipping away...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Angels and Devils | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

...Communists called their secret police, successively, the CHEKA, GPU, OGPU, GUCB/NKVD and MGB, the KGB'S forerunner. Today the agency has a force of 300,000 men under arms to guard Soviet borders, as well as a corps of customs agents. Intourist too works closely with the KGB; tourist guides can steer chosen visitors to restaurants that have hidden microphones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KGB: Russia's Old Boychiks | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...travel was not worth the political battle and probable defeat, Carter was advised. So what, he answered. It is not right that businessmen can deduct their martinis if workmen cannot deduct their sandwiches. And, said Carter, he had campaigned all over the country for two years riding in tourist seats, and he found room in which to do his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Carter v. Carter on the Budget | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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