Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occupied Manchuria, 1934. Wealthy American Tourist Audrey Driscoll should head home. Instead she stays to shelter 19 tiny orphans and deliver the baby of a dying 14-year-old girl. When the smoke clears, she takes the infant home to San Francisco, then spurns a marriage proposal from the only man she will ever truly love in order to nurse her feeble grandfather through his final days. A saint? No, only a Danielle Steel heroine, traveling through life with a stiff moral code and a wardrobe of backless satin dresses. Throughout her 20th book, the author honors the great Late...
...Cincinnati women visiting the White House separately last spring were startled to be pulled out of the tourist line and quizzed by Secret Service agents. Reason: they were radioactive. Three Ohio doctors explained in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine last week that the women had taken a test for heart disease in which each had been injected with a radioisotope before exercising on a treadmill...
...beginning to see his point. If the bill made it through the house, glitzy roadside tourist spots would take a beating. But I pointed out that this might be a good thing...
Such pests are invading the U.S. in increasing numbers, with sometimes dire effects on agriculture, forests, public health and even people's homes. The Mediterranean fruit fly, which threatened California citrus crops in 1980-82, is thought to have arrived in a tourist's peach. Africanized "killer" bees, sighted for the first time on U.S. soil last year near Bakersfield, Calif., probably hitchhiked there from Latin America aboard a ship laden with oil- drilling equipment. Asian tiger mosquitoes, carriers of dengue, a viral infection that causes chills, headache and muscle pains, were intercepted near Houston last year. They have since...
...shows an admirable indifference to pomp and circumstance. He tootles around Cambridge in an antiquated Volkswagen Beetle, newly repainted red. When he flies, he goes tourist class (and gets a wry pleasure out of occasionally seeing some grant-enriched professor in first). He seems quite unconcerned about his salary ($128,900), which is less than he pays several of his deans. He was the first president since 1911 who chose not to live in the presidential mansion in the Yard, preferring to remain in his colonial home in Elmwood. As he walks across the Yard, he often stoops to pick...