Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit I walked with Mr. Fisher to Stalin Avenue, which fronts the school, and he thanked me for stopping by. Then, looking up the street at the Russian embassy, he said: 'We like to think that we are teaching our students to be good citizens of their own countries, and at the same time letting them learn how good the American way is. TIME is helping us do that...
Harry Truman was feeling pretty relaxed. Younger brother J. Vivian Truman was in town for a visit and the brothers lolled around Blair House a few evenings talking about the crops, the cattle and the chickens back home on the farm. At the President's press conference, a reporter asked whatever happened to his threat to hop a train and carry the Fair Deal issues back to the people. Well, said the President, that one was always just on the shelf and maybe it wouldn't be necessary...
...Visit to Ray. As the story was pieced together later, this is what happened : the eight shambled over to Massachusetts Hall where Ray roomed, and walked in without bothering to be asked. Ray was wearing a green varsity sweater with a white "D" knitted into it. That also got their goat: Cirrotta had played freshman football and was entitled only to class numerals. One of them sneered: "You even sleep in it." "No," said Ray, "I was cold...
...want to travel around the country," said Artist O'Brady. "Also I'll have to visit Evanston. Papa-he's 84 now-is still spouting steam because I'm a painter." In Evanston, Gertrude O'Brady would be remembered as a blonde girl named McBrady (she modified her name to make it easier for the French to pronounce). Now, at 43, she sometimes fumbles English words, her braids are red instead of blonde, and she has made art-loving Paris take her work and like...
...without it. Now the organization has 532 members in Cleveland (200 of them veterans) and some 1,500 more throughout the U.S. Possibilities Unlimited has employed some of the techniques of Alcoholics Anonymous. When it hears of someone who has just had an amputation, it sends a member to visit him in the hospital, and offer practical advice; so far as possible the visitor is chosen to match the patient in age, general background and type of operation...