Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a public official: the best friend the American Indian ever had. As social worker and Government man, John Collier has indignantly stood out against the prevailing U.S. opinion that the Indians are not only shiftless ne'er-do-wells but also a decadent, dying race. A visit to the Pueblos in New Mexico in 1920 ("The first time I ever came face to face with a Utopia") made him decide to fight for the Indian's right to keep his old life and culture...
Syria and its national liberation movement was much on the French mind last week. For under the ambitious leadership of shrewd President Shukri Bey Kuwatly, the Syrian parliament had voted funds and conscription for a Syrian national army. One fruit of General de Gaulle's visit to Moscow was believed to have been a Russian guarantee of France's colonial empire. Syria's military stirrings gave France a queasy feeling under her colonial belt; they might endanger the whole French position in the Middle East...
...mind-do not paint to order," wrote Mount in one of his notebooks. In his comfortable village, surrounded by well-off relatives with whom he lived, he could well afford to follow his bent. He was an accomplished fiddler and he was also fond of conviviality ("I must visit the ladies more frequently-go to apple peelings and quiltings"). Hangovers occasionally interrupted his work...
Syria and its national liberation movement was much on the French mind last week. For under the ambitious leadership of shrewd President Shukri Bey Kuwatly, the Syrian parliament had voted funds and conscription for a Syrian national army. One fruit of General de Gaulle's visit to Moscow was believed to have been a Russian guarantee of France's colonial empire. Syria's military stirrings gave France a queasy feeling under her colonial belt; they might endanger the whole French position in the Middle East...
...printing the name of the principal emissary-Harry Hopkins. But some papers managed to use his name anyhow. After he had conferred with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden in London, then with Charles de Gaulle in Paris, the censors passed the news that he was off to Rome to visit Pope Pius...