Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas, 59, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the nation's foremost man scout. Occasion: a three-day hike from Lake Ozette to Lapush, paced by the Justice-leading his wife, daughter, twelve newsmen and 55 Boone companions-in demonstration against local outcries for a tourist-drawing coastal highway. "Can we afford to lose the last such place where a person can get away from it all and savor what is true to nature as it was thousands of years ago?" Mr. Justice Douglas asked the group, and those who had not been convinced at the outset...
...Philipp F. Reemtsma. Vernicos and Reemtsma put up $2,400,000 of their own money, borrowed the rest from German banks, got the big Hamburg-American Line (which has 41 freighters, one passenger ship) to manage the Hanseatic. In a poll of transatlantic traffic, they discovered a trend to tourist-class travel, shrewdly made the 1,254-passenger Hanseatic 93% tourist class and expect full booking...
During his travels, he was a sort of premature Cook's tourist in his friar's habit who noted the price of everything, even to the fees he got for every Mass he said. Author Gage's intention was to shock his English Puritan public with the riches and avariciousness of the Roman church in the New World; today's reader might feel that he is being conducted by an accountant among the wonders of a clash of faiths and civilizations...
Hidden Step. For all her declination toward the horizontal, Sally Jay is not all bed. In her ruefully recounted odyssey among the oddballs, she is often comically appealing. Desperately worried lest she be mistaken for the sort of girl tourist who debarks with a guidebook and a six-month supply of toilet paper, Sally Jay manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls...
...Beat Generation: "We eschew the verbal shorthand popularly supposed to be the language of this ingroup, and we reject the death-wish symbolism of the dark shirt and black stockings. The square has come full circle, so to speak. The hipster today is exactly what the tourist doesn't see. What he sees are the other-directed camp followers making themselves over in the image of an in-group they never knew...