Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...domestic Chinese airliner crashed just after takeoff near the tourist center of Xian, killing all 160 people aboard, in the country's worst aviation accident. A few hours later, a knife-wielding man forced a 737 to fly to Taiwan -- China's 12th hijacking in the past 14 months...
Dempsey, star of "Run," also said he had tramped the well-beaten Harvard tourist trails. "I went everywhere I could possibly go," Dempsey said. "Wherever people took me, I went...
...course, lethal injection, in use here since 1982, is an antiseptic procedure. It lacks the drama of electrocuting someone. One of the region's biggest tourist draws is Old Sparky, the original death chair, which sits behind glass at the Texas Prison Museum four blocks from the Big House. Visitors from around the world come to gawk and marvel at the gleaming oak contraption where 361 killers met their fate from...
...things in that so-called "society" of yours? I hear that Singapore, my glorious city of a home, is in the news these days in your country--chaotic, crime-infested America! I hope all this media attention will encourage some of your non-criminal elements to spend some tourist money here...
...Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes a two-week trek to the north magnetic pole, is a modern counterpart of Franklin. Further and sillier, he imagines that Reepah bears some resemblance (or shows some useful contrast) to Franklin's wife Lady Jane...