Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest irritant to East Germans, amounting almost to an obsession, is their inability to travel to the West...
Polish Jokes. The ordinary East German does not much like the Russians, and he makes his feelings known in any way that will not land him in jail. Hotel clerks save their haughtiest look for Russian travel groups. Even the B-girls are unfriendly. "We always recognize a Russian by his pointed shoes," says a miniskirted blonde at Dresden's Café Prag. "We refuse, of course." Not that the East Germans think much kindlier of their other East European neighbors. They have their own Polish jokes...
...detested in the East bloc for being rude and arrogant. "They come over here with their heavy marks and they buy up all the fruit in sight," says a Czech official. "Then they lecture us about how much better life is in the G.D.R." The recent relaxation of travel barriers between the Communist countries has not thrilled anybody...
...Vietnamese peasants want to go home. But they are prevented from returning to their rice fields by Thieu's police, who restrict travel within the country, and by his army, which keeps the war simmering against...
...Berry learned to his agonizing displeasure, Mississippi journalists are notoriously lazy and rarely travel with the candidates. Since black voters often live in out of the way places which candidates never come to, it is critical that black candidates be able to reach them through the media...