Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helping Hands. If Tom Dewey set a fast pace, Harold Stassen was even faster. On his first day he talked to overflowing crowds at Lincoln's Union College, at Nebraska Wesleyan, at the University of Nebraska. He stopped to visit his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers, hustled out to a veterans' settlement called Huskerville, where he broadcast above the squawling of babies and a yelping dogfight...
During the week, Mora visited the Casa Presidencial to discuss strategy with Picado and Calderón, rode to La Sabana airport to inspect supplies arriving from Nicaragua, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, made speeches all over town. But each day he included a visit to the same small cottage on the edge of San José. Manuel Mora is a single man. "I was too poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra...
...morning she achieved the purpose of her visit was warm and golden with spring sunshine. In budding Grosvenor Square, in her black dress and coat among the pastel dresses of royalty, she walked with George VI to the towering bronze statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and pulled down the Union Jack that had veiled it. It was the third anniversary of her husband's death...
...According to the list of royal preferences sent to Australia in anticipation of the royal visit in 1949: Princess Margaret strongly objects to being called Princess Margaret Rose, the name by which she was known as a child...
...were both decent human beings. 4) With Florence under shellfire and contested by partisans, a U.S. nurse and an Italian friend run desperately through the empty, hazardous streets, in search of her former lover, a partisan leader. 5) Three U.S. chaplains-a Roman Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew-visit a deep-country monastery. The monks, surprised by the presence of the Jew, are deeply disturbed because the Catholic chaplain is making no effort to convert his two friends. 6) In the grandly desolate marshlands which edge the Po, a group of Italian partisans (with some Russian, English and American...