Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention to the strategy of the U.S.S.R. and given the Iron Curtain its name. He was saluted everywhere with instant, affectionate and reminiscent applause...
...P.V.O. has shown signs that it was willing to cooperate with the government. Government officials show up regularly at the Rangoon Turf Club to instill public confidence, badly shaken by the sound of gunfire from the Insein front ten miles away. Last week racegoers gossiped hopefully of the current visit of P.V.O. General Bo La Yaung (his name means "Officer Moonshine") to the government's army chief, Bo Ne Win ("Officer Sunshine"), who rarely misses a Sunday at the track...
...Getulio himself has made no move. Yet he is so widely discussed for the 1950 presidential elections that most political maneuvers in Brazil lately have had one theme: stop Getulio. To further that end by bolstering his own sagging prestige, President Eurico Caspar Dutra recently announced plans for a visit...
...likes to travel, and has returned several times to Russia to lecture, most recently in 1946. He was, he thinks, one of the last U.S. scientists to visit the Soviet Union. He still feels that men of science are the best hope for bringing understanding between nations. But trying to peddle that idea in the U.S.S.R., he says, was like "a voice crying in the wilderness...
Baruch, who has been the British statesman's host during most of his visit here, introduced Churchill as "a peace-hungering man," and the "greatest living Englishman...