Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the visit, those who thought the Marshall-Stalin talk would speed agreement seemed to be right. The Foreign Ministers ticked off, with minor disagreements, 15 minor articles of the proposed Austrian peace treaty. Then the sessions bogged down again. On every major question, Russia and the U.S. were at odds. Russia asked that a slice of Austria (southern Carinthia) and $150 million in reparations from Austria be given to Yugoslavia. The Western powers refused. Russia wanted "German assets" in Austria (available for seizure as German reparations) defined to include all property transferred by Austrians to Germans during the Anschluss...
Meanwhile, the publicity committee has tabulated the results of its Jubilee activities poll, distributed last week to Union Freshmen. More than 90 percent of those answering stated their intentions of coming to the May 10 formal, while about 75 percent intend to visit the informal "cabaret" Friday night...
What should rouse less comment than a friendly visit by a nephew to an uncle? But last week, when Hashimite nephew Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, went to call on Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting...
Before he acted, Khoury's mind began to wander. When one close friend visited the President's house to inquire after his health, Khoury meandered into the room in his nightdress, asked "And who is this?" Once, when he was being taken to his car for a visit to the doctor, he refused to enter, saying that he must take his eggplants with...
...asked Congress for permission to leave the country to visit the U.S.* got it on condition that he be gone only for the time "strictly necessary." (Señora Ricardo F. de Silva of Los Angeles, Calif, called to tell him that if he would visit L.A. he would be given a Mexican flag so big that 300 men would be needed to lift...