Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left Seattle's Broadway High School after three years to drive a laundry truck. During World War I he joined the Navy, was sent to Killingholme, England as a machinist's mate, and flew over the North Sea in lumbering Curtiss flying boats on anti-Zeppelin patrols. Travel fanned his ambition...
Meanwhile in Washington, U.S. officials studied a report which recommended what the Communists feared most. Former Senator D. Worth Clark had gone to China as investigator for the Senate Appropriations Committee. After a hardworking month of travel and talk with Chinese on all levels, he came back with a program based on these points: "Immediate and extensive" direct military aid, combat advisory aid, financial aid for military operations, financial aid to stabilize the currency, and strict U.S. supervision of the distribution of U.S. money and supplies. Clark's conclusions: "Piecemeal aid will no longer save failing China from Communism...
Whatever Habaneros wanted-rest, fun, comfort, or bargain shopping-Miami had. A combination of inflated prices in Cuba plus fast, cheap air service had launched a boom in northbound tourist travel; Havana, long celebrated as a tourist spot in its own right, since last spring has sent some 50,000 tourists to Florida...
...President] Conant has been left free to travel about the country addressing meetings. On these occasions, he manages with a 'bridled tongue' to boldly play safe. And he has had more freedom to write articles in which he shows the result of his acquired caution by avoiding disturbing statements [with] well-intended doubletalk...
Between 1:45 and 4 p.m. today 57,000 otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the greans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will...