Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think desirable for that more or less final test. And that date would bring us to about the middle of February. But we want him to get some exercise before that, and since the weather may continue to be cold here, it is thought that he might find a visit to the South helpful from that standpoint. He could have, say, a fortnight right after Christmas...
...River Oxus to the high plateaus and valleys where 12 million Afghans ride their horses and camels, herd their flocks, fight their feuds and tend their bazaars. The instinctive memory of it blew like a cooling wind across preparations for Afghanistan's latest invasion from the north, the visit of those part-time nomads, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev...
...Afghanistan (through King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his strong-willed brother-in-law, Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan) took special precautions against too conspicuous a welcome to the northerners. Few flags or banners were hung in Kabul's streets. The public was not told of the coming visit, and the government did not even confide to foreign embassies what day the Russians would arrive...
...stream of refugees from nearby Russian Turkistan, and by the age-old assumption among Afghans that anything to the north is barbaric. As arrival day approached, the bazaars swarmed with secret police, who questioned strangers and put suspicious persons under house arrest for the duration of the Russians' visit. Along the three-mile route from the airport into the capital, families were warned that any untoward incident might bring death to every member of the household...
When planning his half year visit to Harvard, Siegfried had hoped to lecture on this topic of the future of civilization, but his schedule would not permit it. The professor, nevertheless, when free, is approachable on any subject. Those who meet him remark on his conversation which may include any topic from the Roman Catholic Church to workingmen's compensation. "In fact," noted Albert A. Mavrinac, the professor's unofficial guide, "Siegfried is interested in everything...