Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as Japan's new Conservative Premier got set to make his first official call on Washington this week: "This visit is very important and comes at a formative period in the relations between our two countries. There is a growing feeling in Japan that a new stage is approaching in [its] relations to the rest of the world, and I hope and believe that we will have a chance to talk that over constructively...
...also wrote 30 novels plus stories and character sketches; he was an active archaeologist, and he busily searched out and transcribed old country songs and ballads, e.g., Widdecombe Fair. He was a staunch High-churchman; there is a legend that the Low-Church Archbishop of York on a visit to Baring-Gould's church objected to the carrying of a cross in the processional and Baring-Gould instructed the choir to sing...
Kishi's tour of Southeast Asia was designed as a prelude to his U.S. visit: he wanted to claim to speak for Asian opinion. In New Delhi Kishi outlined to Jawaharlal Nehru his own plan for a U.S.-financed billion-dollar Asian development program, listened in mild surprise when Nehru labeled the idea "American aid in disguise." In Rangoon Kishi impressed his Burmese hosts with Japan's desire to supply technical know-how to other Asian nations. Somewhere along the way he came down with a case of dysentery. (It may be pure coincidence, but the head...
...memories of student high jinks, flunked exams and eccentric professors. In the pulpit, conducting chapel service just as he had done so many times more than 30 years before, stood a bird-like man of 85. Former President Alexander Meiklejohn (pronounced Meekle-john) back at Amherst for an official visit, was the hit of the reunion show -as mild-mannered and spry as ever, but still very much the maverick who stirred up some of the biggest educational storms of the 1930s...
...tourists and fewer novelists visit the Molise region, which stretches, a withered Achilles tendon, above the heel of the Italian peninsula. Novelist Giose Rimanelli, who was born in this doomed place, has produced a bitter fictional report centered on a village that hangs like an abandoned bird's nest on a waterless escarpment between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic. His story, in translation at least, is as stiff, ill-fitting and yet appropriate as a peasant's wedding suit...