Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comely Colonel Hobby was entitled to wear the European Theater of Operations ribbon because of her three weeks' visit to England last November. At that time, the ribbons were given for service outside the continental U.S., however near and brief the assignment. On July 13 the regulations were tightened, and since then Colonel Hobby's shirt front has been ribbonless...
...people over here are very American conscious; most of them to whom I have talked have expressed the hope that they can some day visit America. It gives me a feeling of pride that I am a citizen of the U.S. and am fighting...
Building the Road. Until the war came, Seagrave's worst worry was malaria. Nearly as worrisome were the narrow, precipice-hugging, sandy or muddy roads, which hampered his movements when he wanted to visit an outpost clinic. He was glad to see the building of the Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously...
...simplicity, his kindliness and his great sense of humor that earned him a unique place in Chinese hearts. When a group of American newsmen visited Nanking shortly after the 1932 Shanghai war, they were struck by the loveliness of an unusually large garden behind a modest home near the tomb of Sun Yatsen. Of an old man with a flowing beard, sauntering in the garden, they asked admittance. "Sure, come in," said the patriarch. The tour over, one of the newsmen slipped a dollar bill into the old man's pocket. "No thank you, gentlemen," said...
...During its shooting, Pola collapsed from what she calls a "chronical appendicitis," nearly died. The early '303 were lean years for her. She had been reduced to making a personal appearance tour, playing four shows a day; was twice prevented from leaving the U.S. to visit her mother on the French Riviera, because she owed the U.S. Government $80,000; was banned from acting in Germany...