Word: visitor
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...BOAT TOUCHED SAND AND THE RAMP WENT DOWN, I BECAME A VISITOR TO HELL." --Harry Parley Private Parley, 24, carried a flamethrower in the first wave on Omaha Beach with the 116th Infantry Regiment
...circled, waiting for our signal to approach. I remember looking back and seeing the Navy coxswain at the controls of our boat standing high above us completely exposed to enemy fire, doing his job as ordered. As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down, I became a visitor to hell. Some boats on either side of us had been hit by artillery and heavy weapons. I was aware that some were burning and some were sinking. I shut everything out and concentrated on following the men in front of me down the ramp and into the water...
...cost." But although it made them contingent on Chen's accepting Beijing's "one China" policy, the same statement also put forward seven points seemingly designed to put cross-strait ties on a more stable footing. They ranged from confidence-building measures, such as proposals for increased visitor exchanges, to suggestions of closer economic cooperation. Beijing even seemed to address Taiwan's deepest concerns-military security and the island's place on the world stage-by calling for the establishment of "a mechanism of mutual trust in the military field" and the granting of more "international living space" to Taiwan...
...Haag Steel Lock, a mat of 36 steel plates arranged to form a black square. First assembled in 1968, it remains to this day one of the bluntest things that have ever presumed to radiate the aura of an art object--which may be what was bothering a recent visitor to the show "A Minimal Future? Art as Object: 1958-1968." The art lover, a guy who looked to be in his early 30s, with shoulder-length hair and a porkpie hat, gave the work a dirty look, furtively checked the gallery for security guards and then briskly walked right...
...international offices that handle most students, in fact, the compounding of woes registering foreign students after Sept. 11 was epitomized by the Student Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, designed as the first nationwide computer database of international students...