Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urals & Beyond. Before he left Washington for Moscow, Richard Nixon had worried that Khrushchev might snub him and permit only brief, formal contacts. Instead, Nixon saw Khrushchev more often, on more intimate terms, than any American visitor to Moscow before him. A totalitarian unused to real debate, Khrushchev grew increasingly amiable despite Nixon's back talk-or perhaps because...
...Nothing," says Columnist Lucius Beebe, who became a steady visitor, "interrupted the continual tumult that was life at the Garden of Allah. Now and then the men in white came with a van and took somebody away, or bankruptcy or divorce or even jail claimed a participant in its strictly unstately sarabands. Nobody paid any mind...
...Piglet in Pastry ($5.25), to genuine Violets in Summer Snow ($1.75), can easily cost up to $70 with drinks and tips. Seasonal foods and delicacies from all over the world are rushed to the restaurant by plane; its $100,000 wine cellar holds 15,000 bottles. If a visitor can not wait for the fun to begin, he can pluck a free sausage off a small tree as he takes his seat...
...Visitor: Excuse me. Do you mind if I stand here and observe? I've never watched a brain surgeon at work before...
Watching from the Raja's balcony, the librarian of the Jagannath Temple turned to a Western visitor: "To witness the Lord of Lords on the Holy Car," he said, "guarantees the beholder eternal beatitude and absorption in the Supreme Being...