Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most Southern states has grown more moderate, partly because of the increasing Negro vote and partly because the Republicans and George Wallace have drawn off the most conservative elements. The remaining loyalists had nowhere to go but to Humphrey, who as Vice President had taken the trouble to visit and treat with Southern leaders, even Maddox...
...Secret Deals. In the eyes of ordinary Czechoslovaks, Tito's visit put seal and confirmation on the reality of their triumph at Cierna in defense of their new freedoms. Until he arrived, many Czechoslovaks had found the sudden letup in Soviet pressure almost too good to be believed. Young Czechoslovaks milled around Prague's Jan Hus monument, puzzling over what had happened. The nagging suspicion lingered that their leaders had undertaken a secret sellout to the Soviets that only later would become apparent. Those fears were reinforced by the fact that Dubček and his colleagues purposefully...
Lesson from Stalin. Tito's visit, and the response it elicited, no doubt infuriated the Soviets, worried as they are about the consequences of the Czechoslovak precedent elsewhere in Eastern Europe...
...party, and the members of its armed youth group, the Jeunesse, ruled the streets of Brazzaville. To guard the palace and to train militiamen, Massamba-Debat imported Cuban advisers. A good deal of economic aid and advice came from China and the Soviet Union, and the President paid a visit to Peking...
Such tactics produce mixed reactions. Many a woman considers a visit to Rome a failure without a pinch from a pappagallo. But others are outraged, or at least profess to be. "I'm sick of it," says one American girl. "Some of these Italian men are so puny and pathetic, they have to do something to prove they are men." Many girls have taken to wearing girdles for protection, only to have bottoms painfully bruised by girdlesnappers...