Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flooring and seven miles of carpets. Hammarskjold runs his House with all the frugal efficiency of a well-brought-up Swedish housewife. He lopped $1,000,000 a year off the Secretariat's budget, last week ordered U.N. employees assigned to the San Francisco meeting to travel by air coach (estimated saving...
...Communist fronts in Europe and the U.S. (he would not say yes or no to this on the ground that the charge was too vague), 3) an acquaintance of the ambassadors of two Communist satellite states (he admitted this). A fundamental principle was at stake. Is the right to travel abroad a privilege to be granted, like a federal job? Or is it the inherent right of a U.S. citizen, naturalized or native...
...that "the issuance of passports is a discretionary executive function." For Otto Nathan, getting ready for his trip to Switzerland, the outcome was clear and encouraging. "The State Department's action in issuing a passport to me," he said, "vindicates the fundamental right of every American citizen to travel...
Having established snails in cultural perspective, Cadart goes into more detail about their anatomy and their slippery lives. As mollusks risen from the sea and hardly adapted to the land, they are dependent on humidity. They prefer to travel and graze only when light rain is falling or when the ground is wet with dew. The rest of the time they sleep safely shut in their shells, sometimes sealed into them with a membrane of dried mucus. Their senses of touch and smell are acute, but the little eyes on the ends of their tentacles are not efficient; they must...
...Luke: "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." In due course the sinner appears, but the book's hero is on the scene from Page One, a Roman Catholic priest, about to travel the age-old road to martyrdom. Jesuit Father Janos is a good priest and a soldier of Christ in his heart, but he has had to fight few battles for the Christian faith in Roman Catholic Hungary. Then, as he sees Red agitators play on the needs and greeds...