Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volcano last week showed contempt for those trying to conquer its fireworks: it released a poisonous cloud that swept workers from its slopes, showered gray ash on the nearby town of Giarre and sent a new river of lava toward the Rifugio di Sapienza, a tourist shelter it had damaged earlier in the spring. Engineer Abersten, weary but unbowed, warned that another precision blast would be required to make the diversion an unqualified success. Said he: "I don't want to be defeated by Etna...
...doesn't wear Bermuda shorts or sunglasses, but he is the stereotype American tourist. He ogles the natives as though they were the foreigners. Not knowing the language, he complains that no one speaks "American." He is given to such asides as "I wonder who's buried in Ming's Tomb...
...memorial, a museum commemorating the millions of Jews and others who died at Auschwitz and Dachau and Treblinka, will be housed in two large, red brick turn-of-the-century buildings. The catastrophic drama of genocide will thus be installed in the middle of the Washington tourist round, along with the Capitol and the cherry blossoms. The museum will detain tourists as the Ancient Mariner seized the wedding guests to make them listen to an uglier tale than they might want to hear...
...important to remember that Harvard Square is a viable community, not just a shopping center or tourist district," said Gladys P. Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund. "It's a place where people live as well as work," Gifford added...
...play is the teen-age Eugene, portrayed with winning deadpan guile by Matthew Broderick. He acts as narrator, a kind of perky tourist guide to darkest Depression Brooklyn. He is possessed by two maddeningly tantalizing desires: to play for the New York Yankees and to behold a naked woman while eating an ice cream cone...