Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin is worried he will do just that. During Cyrus Vance's mission to Moscow in April, a Russian listened with annoyance as a visitor from Washington remonstrated with him about Soviet intervention in Africa. Finally the Russian interrupted angrily: "How can you Americans complain so self-righteously about what we are doing outside your sphere of influence when you are making mischief right in our own front yard...
Harvard is a fairly frequent visitor to Washington, and the purpose of its trips, more often than not, is to lobby for issues the University believes directly concern the Harvard community. Harvard's Office of Government and Community Affairs acts as Harvard's liason, monitoring Congressional legislation and administrative regulations, developing policy positions, and marshalling support in Washington for its interests on various issues, ranging from tuition aid to middle-class families, to support for research grants...
...attracting mostly first-time visitors from overseas, but if the nation wants to lure them back for second or third trips, it must improve and expand services. Only a few major cities have well-staffed visitor services that can help non-English-speaking tourists find their way about or locate a doctor on short notice. In hotels, restaurants and stores, it often seems that any language is spoken -just so it is English. Any money will be changed-so long as it is the U.S. dollar...
...every visitor to the museum will notice, there is a small label next to the art object telling who the donor is, Mellon, Kress...
...captain. A crowd of children gathered around, fascinated by the tall black soldiers, their faces scarred with tribal markings. "Not much left to some of these places," the captain observed of the bullet-scarred walls and bombed-out buildings. Then, as the children began to applaud, he told a visitor: "That's why we're here. So the people can come back...