Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night eight years later, during Dictator Juan Perón's church-burning war on Catholicism, the same bomb-hurling gangs switched from Jews to Catholics, beat up friars (one was killed) and tried to catch anti-Peronista Father Cucchetti. To his hiding place came a friendly visitor-Rabbi Schlesinger. By last week their friendship had resulted in Latin America's first interfaith union: Movimiento de Confraternidad Judeo-Christian...
...phone conversations are usually void of such time-wasting nonsense as "hello" and "goodbye," and he often hangs up when he has said his piece, leaving the fellow on the other end of the line dangling in midsentence. He can stare daggers at a visitor, or just as easily ignore him with supreme aplomb...
...revetments. Suddenly the test director shut off the liquid fuel that had produced an awesome 300,000 lbs. of total thrust from the two biggest rocket engines ever developed in the U.S., the main unit for the 5,500-mile Titan ICBM. "O.K.," said the director to a visitor, in the silence that followed. "Now you can go over and see the solid-propellant guys...
Author Grau tells of these offbeat, touchy folk with the air of a summer visitor who is too intelligent and human to write them off as simply quaint but not sufficiently involved to look beyond their idiosyncrasies and surface emotions. A young girl suffering from growing pains has a couple of grubby love affairs. A boy courts a girl on a neighboring island, and so freshens an old feud that results in senseless violence. Ancient Mamere
...Referring to a "one-eyed, one-horned . . . pigeontoed, underclothed" visitor from outer space, celebrated in a current rock 'n' roll hit. Asked his line, he replies: "Eatin' purple people, and it sure is fine...