Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whether Reeb's goals were right or wrong, it is still an American's right to travel where he wants, to speak what he believes, and to fight for what he feels is right, whether or not he happens to be a resident of the state where he travels. For, above all, we are Americans first and state citizens second, and should never be labeled "outsiders" in this country...
Closed Ring. As they have built up their armament, the Greek Cypriots have been slowly closing the ring about the Turkish communities by cutting off supplies and setting up roadblocks. In theory, the Turkish Cypriots are at liberty to travel anywhere, but in practice it is difficult. At some roadblocks Turkish Cypriot truck drivers are stopped for tedious "searches," in which their cargoes of fruit or vegetables are unloaded on the ground and sometimes damaged beyond use. No gasoline is allowed into the Turkish quarter of Nicosia. A few Turks make a habit of driving back and forth...
HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES, edited by Irwin Blacker. The highlights of Richard Hakluyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, all of which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power...
...code words 'Amour Lenin.' " The Reds gave him a cigarette lighter decorated with four aces and told him a Soviet agent with an identical lighter would meet him in front of a movie theater in Smiths Falls, Ont., 1,650 miles away, to which Thompson was to travel on certain Sundays. The agent would ask, "Are you from Toledo?" and Thompson would reply, "Yes, since June...
...Bogotá, the list of kidnapings has reached the point where the army advises wealthy Colombians to "alter your daily routine, never discuss travel plans among strangers, don't go out alone." Nervous citizens can buy guns from the army to protect themselves; many men keep submachine guns at their side when they drive to work in the morning. In some cases the Communists have used kidnaping threats in an attempt to run both foreign and Colombian industrialists out of the country. Most of the businessmen have sent their families abroad and stayed on - with body guards beside them...