Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgia's crafty Carl Vinson hit the roof. As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee he had been getting hotter & hotter at Johnson's methods. After a hurried visit to Johnson's office, he came back to Capitol Hill with Johnson's abject surrender in writing-and to be sure about it, read it into the record on the House floor...
Joseph Dodge of the Appalachian Club, who led the rescue crew in its risky task, said it was Schiller's first visit to Tuckerman's Ravine, and that he was not a proficient skier...
...York, decided the Russians, might conceivably be all right as a place to visit, but they sure wouldn't want to live there. The daily Vechernyaya Moskva took a long look at Manhattan's skyline and found it little more than "an accumulation of flat surfaces, a chaotic mass of styles, like monstrous stalagmites . . ." Furthermore, Manhattan's topless towers are dangerous and uncomfortable. On windy days, "lamps swing and water splashes . . . The inhabitants of the Empire State Building can hardly experience great pleasure when the tremendous building swings with the wind and one can clearly hear various...
...visit to Lexington, Ky., Hooper met ex-Jockey Ivan Parke (the nation's leading rider in 1923-24) and decided to buy some thoroughbreds for Parke to train. The first one he bought, a $10,200 yearling which he named Hoop Jr., won the Kentucky Derby in 1945. It was a plum that many a sportsman had spent years and millions of dollars trying to pluck. Now Lucky Hooper's Olympia, a chunky bay three-year-old with a white face and a pink nose, is the red-hot favorite for the 75th running of the Derby...
...possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right to preach or hear confessions. Last week Archbishop Gushing further decreed that Father Feeney could perform no priestly functions, e.g., saying Mass, teaching religion. He also forbade any Roman Catholic to visit or assist in the activities of Feeney's G.H.Q. -St. Benedict Center on Cambridge's Arrow Street...