Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traitor was a bespectacled, wiry, 27-year-old Nisei named Tomoya Kawakita, better known to hundreds of G.I. prisoners as "The Meatball." The son of a California grocer, Kawakita was caught on a visit to Japan by World War II. He threw in his lot with the Japanese. As an interpreter in the prison camp at Oeyama, he taunted G.I. prisoners in their own ball-park English, took savage delight in tormenting them...
Police and government officials were bewildered. When a group of correspondents asked permission to visit the jail, they were told: "The police cannot take responsibility for your safety." The correspondents walked the six blocks to the jail, through throngs of police and MPs, without being challenged...
...picked up his knowledge of the American idiom by virtue of some years spent in San Francisco, where his father was French Consul, his unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball as a sports reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle. A fortnight ago he renewed both of these Americanisms during a visit here for conversations with our editors before returning to Paris to cover the reconvening of the U.N. Security Council there...
...over Frau Lehrte's activities. She lived in the southernmost part of Berlin's U.S. sector, on Landshuterstrasse, a pleasant street which runs across the fateful boundary between Berlin and the surrounding Soviet zone. Lately an increasing number of Russian officers had walked over the boundary to visit the widow Lehrte...
...watching his Kent School (Conn.) crew sprinting to victory past an English shell on the Thames, the Rev. Frederick H. Sill decided that British schoolboys ought to get a chance to visit the U.S. Last week chubby, blond Anthony Stewart Arnold was back in England, after a year at Kent on one of the Schoolboy Scholarships started by Father Sill 20 years ago. Like other young Britons who had made the trip last year, 18-year-old Tony Arnold thought that U.S. prep schools were great fun to visit-but no place to get an education...