Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraging labor to stop production and go to Peking to protest against the Cultural Revolution. Putting "not politics but bank notes in command," railed Peking, the anti-Maoists used their control of local party funds to raise wages and welfare allowances, provided the dissident marchers to Peking with handsome travel allowances and new clothes, and doled out choice government housing to their families...
...United States has begun denying travel visas to Czechoslovakian citizens in retaliation for the Czech government's detention of naturalized U.S. citizen Vladimir J. Kazan-Komarek, owner of the Harvard Travel Service...
...embassy officials visited the imprisoned travel agent on November 23 and December 16, and reported him in good physical condition...
Then Lin and Mao created the Red Guards by the simple if shudder-making device of closing the high schools and universities of China indefinitely and turning the nation's youth loose on one long, glorious holiday of travel and excitement in the service of Mao. Lin's army helped organize the youth into coherent bands, equipped them with uniforms and badges, and sent them out to give their elders what-for in a lark whose attractiveness any teeny-bopper or Berkeley rebel would instantly recognize. Mao thus hoped to fire with revolutionary fervor the very generation that...
Courtial takes on Ferdinand as a "secretary" in a business that becomes the mecca for every meccano-minded nut in France. It is the world of popular mechanics fictionalized. Courtial himself is an idealist and charlatan, infatuated with the possibilities of lighter-than-air travel. For modest fees, he demonstrates balloon ascents to mobs of gawping yokels...