Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ridge (Tenn.) High School, which grew up by the light of the atom bomb, had a visit from atomic chemist Charles Coryell one day last fall. He told the students: "Unless the atom bomb is controlled for peace, one out of three persons in this auditorium will probably die of the effects of atomic energy." The Oak Ridge school kids, soberly shocked, organized a Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis (which they promptly nicknamed...
...first week of spring, Francis Albert Behymer went out to look for news, and put a thousand muddy miles behind him. At little towns like Martin, Tenn., and Benton, Ark., the wiry 76-year-old stopped his plodding Chevrolet and got out to visit with the villagers. He talked their language, quoted their Bible, knew their crops and brought news to them from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home...
...explained his visit to one victim: "Her daughter was pretty." When the prosecution insisted that, on the contrary, she was "of extreme homeliness," Petiot demanded that a photograph be brought to court to support his taste...
...Winston Churchill's recent visit to Manhattan he made a foray into politico-entomology. Said he: "Our Communist friends should study . . . the life and the soul of the white ant. That will show them not only a great deal about their past but will give them a fair indication of their future...
...Eire was still a little bit of tourist heaven. But food supplies were still too short everywhere, hotel and transportation facilities too cramped to accommodate a horde of tourists. People with "good and sufficient" reasons-businessmen going after business, students going to foreign schools, people who wanted to visit relatives-had little trouble getting passports for Europe, Asia, Africa. The U.S. Department of State, swamped with 1,000 passport applications a day, was okaying 80% of them...