Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only lubricant for cosmic travel. That's what they call it-cosmic travel. A man wants to talk business with me. It has an incredible future...
...from three of the columnists. Said Considine, who wrote about the store's stock of exotic foods: "Made a nice little feature." Said Delaplane, who also wrote a complimentary piece after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American's O'Brian spurned his benefactor: he mentioned neither Hess nor the store in his column until Nov. 3, when he broke the story...
...Harvard CRIMSON of Saturday, October 31, there appeared a piece entitled, "The Vagabond: The From of Travel," describing a certain young man's efforts to obtain a scholarship grant to several foreign universities. We are of the opinion that this poor student's French section man, M. Plombier, was not the ame sympathique" as thought, but has thoroughly ruined the student's chances of receiving a grant from the French government by grossly misquoting the opening lines of Paul Verlaine's poem, "II Pleure Dans Mon Coeur." They should read...
...Cuban exiles who live near Miami and glower across the Straits of Florida at Fidel Castro, last week's opportunity for a propaganda blow was irresistible: 2,000 U.S. travel agents were freeloading on Castro in Havana in a convention dedicated to the fatuous proposition that present-day Cuba is a tourist paradise. Off from Florida went a DC-3 loaded with anti-Castro leaflets, which fluttered down upon the Cuban capital. Fidel Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine...
...travel agents, gathered in their hotels, Castro tourist officials solemnly declared that onetime Hero Matos was a "counterrevolutionary, a running dog of the plantation owners." Then, just as Castro, returning from Camaguey, stepped out of his helicopter in downtown Havana, the DC-3 from Florida roared low over the skyline and dumped its load of white pamphlets...