Word: visitores
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...Push." "It was like the days of the occupation," said one visitor. "You could tell by just looking at a person whether he was going to help, and no one had to look far to find sympathy." Women joined their menfolk to work on the broken dikes. Children were let out of school to help collect money and supplies. Queen Juliana contributed a bundle of her own and her children's clothes and set out on a tour of the flooded areas. At one point her car got stuck in the mud. "Come on," called the Queen, suiting...
...Rivera, 36, who supervises elementary Spanish in the El Paso public schools, "I repeated several times, 'Pase usted,' but I did not enter." The door led to a first-grade classroom filled with tots, few of whom spoke Spanish. They had been told only that their expected visitor "understands English, but does not speak it." The children soon grasped the meaning of Rivera's phrase ("Enter"), and repeated the invitation to come in. Rivera smiled and walked in with a greeting: "?Buenos dias...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, vacationing under intermittent sun and rain in Jamaica, was presented with a key to the city of Kingston. It was the first time the city has ever given its symbolic freedom to a visitor...
...still stewing, happily and softly, in his own rich juices, his quiet, cultivated New England voice scarcely varying from paragraph to momentous paragraph. Any interruption jars him; he copes with it politely, lays it aside, and resumes from where he thinks he ought to be. After three hours, the visitor may rise to leave. "May I borrow two more minutes," says Bucky, "to complete the thought...
...second floor of Massachusetts Hall. Conant got to his office each morning a little before 9 a.m. to beging work on the mail and conferences that were the bajor part of his day's work. If he were in an expansive mood he would show the visitor a little plaque that had been given him. "Behold the Turtle! He Maketh Progress Only When H is Head is Sticking Out" was the motto on the plaque...