Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once asked Washington if we could train some Appalachian girls for the tourist industry under the Manpower Retraining Act," he recalled. "I guess we confounded them. After two years, we stopped trying...
...that the Government may impose stronger curbs on private spending abroad-without indicating what they would be. In any case, the Administration is still leaning away from such emergency brakes as severe credit tightening or mandatory controls on foreign investment, is keeping mum on whether it may restrain U.S. tourist spending...
...cartoonists, it was all a matter of sharp blacks and whites, a picture etched in the vitriol of their trade. Johnson was a cranky old codger blind to criticism and deaf to dissent; he was a foolish tourist taken in by the grass skirts and leis of a Pacific tourist trap...
...peninsula boulevard busy with buses and horse-drawn surreys. Developed haphazardly, with a strong flavor of claptrap and ticky-tacky, the magnificent sweep of beaches has seen the tide of tourism rise, then ebb. Now it is rising again, to fill the well-appointed hotels for the average tourist -El Presidente, Acapulco Hilton, El Elcano-sitting on the beach, surrounded by well-stocked shops...
...tourist in India, the magician's rope trick is merely another clever demonstration that the hand is quicker than the eye. To Professor Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago divinity school, the fakir's fakery is the vestige of an ancient religious rite with highly symbolic overtones: the rope is an image of the "astral cord," symbolizing the link between earth and sky, man and heaven. Originally, the trick was intended to prove to spectators the existence of an unknown and mysterious world; by climbing the rope and then temporarily disappearing, the conjurer revealed the possibility...