Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal regrets (from the crowned heads of Belgium and The Netherlands, and from Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish throne), commentators pointed out that the snubs were probably not directed at Meg and Tony personally, but were retaliatory slaps at the snobbery of Queen Elizabeth, who has failed to attend, or to send a representative to, many of the weddings and funerals of continental royalty. In Germany, the Hamburg Die Welt ran a cartoon showing a king on the phone to Britain, saying, "But in case we should need asylum again, we'd be glad to come...
...Cornell-and-Stanford-trained philosopher, Kimpton took over a campus intellectually stirred by the sweeping changes of restless Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. College courses of broad generalization had buried traditional academic details. It fell to Kimpton to attend to details: an alarming drop in undergraduate enrollment because other schools feared Chicago's experimentalism; seedy living conditions because of an ugly, sprawling slum; a $1,400,000 deficit...
...movement. In New York he held a fast press conference, then dashed out to suburban New Rochelle for a big Democratic dinner and a bid for the commuters' vote. By week's end he was back in Detroit to say goodbye to the departing Midwestern politicians and attend a meeting of the United Auto Workers...
...every President must each year, Ike attended the Gridiron Club's white-tie dinner. The affair is private, and newsmen who attend are supposed to keep mum about what they see and hear, but next day the word was all over Washington. Ike had offhandedly endorsed Richard Nixon for President. Noting that next year a new President would be occupying his place, the story went, Ike said it would save a lot of bother just to move the distance of two chairs. Sitting two chairs away, his face a well-controlled mask: Vice President Nixon...
...policeman lectured him: "You know you are free to attend Vice President Chang's meeting, don't you? You know we police won't try to prevent you?" The sobbing boy bowed low, and the officer continued: "But you insist on marching along shouting 'We want our freedom!' You know that represents a political demonstration against the government, don't you?" Bowing repeatedly, the student tried to beg forgiveness, but the cop interrupted him: "Now, we will not allow you to attend the meeting. On account of your bad behavior you must come with...