Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the White House one day last week, past the iron gates, buzzed busy Ed Stettinius, just off the plane from San Francisco. His grey homburg was at a jaunty angle, his humor good. Twenty minutes later he emerged with happy tidings. President Truman, he announced, would visit the San Francisco conference...
...there were some who also wanted a look at America's victorious leaders. The Chicago Daily News clamored for Eisenhower's return, suggested parades down Fifth Avenue and Michigan Boulevard. Said the News: "General Eisenhower's visit would be like the seventh-inning stretch in a critical ball game...
...bolt position in the center of their line, the Japs had the ancient citadel of Shuri, visited by Commodore Perry in 1853. In Shuri castle, biggest and stoutest structure on the island, the Ryukyu kings had lived before the Japs took over, a quarter-century after Perry's visit. Last week a U.S. battleship scored 25 direct hits on the castle, but the shells bounced off, said an observer, like "rubber balls...
Careful & Colorless. The gods favor obscurity, and Hirohito's early boyhood was as obscure as a god could wish. He was brought up in imperial privacy, and rarely exposed to the eyes of his future subjects. (A memorable occasion was the day he deigned to visit...
Ghanshyamdas Birla, decided to visit Britain and the U.S. to see how industry is run there...