Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agile defense and sheer gall last week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...
...easy to visit Los Angeles without taking a look at its airplane industry. The day I visited one plant they were finishing the biggest passenger plane I ever saw. The top of the tail section was five and a half stories above my head Later, I was discussing this new plane with an airline's president who listened to my enthusiastic account and said: "It's a great ship, but it's already obsolete." Airmen are hard to understand...
Unlike his potent conservative' rival, Ohio's John W. Bricker, 38-year-old Harold Stassen sees no advantage in having a sounding board in the Senate. Instead, he has a two-year plan. He intends 1) to visit Russia, Europe, South America for firsthand study, 2) to talk international and domestic issues in the 48 states. To the G.O.P. Old Guard this was clear notice that he would also be trying to build a 1948 organization. A man as determined as Stassen could not be held lightly...
Captain Simoni's agitation was caused by the behavior of students in Trieste's Slovene-language schools. It was far beyond anything in his experience as a fine arts professor in a Kansas university. On a visit to the schools he had been shocked to see "walls just plastered with inscriptions reading 'Viva Tito,' 'Viva Stalin,' 'Down with this and down with that.' " When students left their classes to join a demonstration staged by the pro-Tito Italo-Slovene Anti-Fascist Union, it was too much. The Captain issued a decree closing...
...late Calixto Carias, "director" of a nonexistent artillery school, returned from a U.S. visit enthusiastic over beisbol* (baseball). Ten years before, his uncle, Dictator-President Tiburcio Carias Andino, had abolished sport teams and clubs in Honduras as possible blinds for political conspiracy. Nephew Calixto got beisbol legalized on the grounds that soldiers should learn to pitch hand grenades. In the shadow of baseball's new legality, futbol (soccer) also mushroomed...