Word: attender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following their election, the new members will attend three orientation meetings at which they will be briefed on the purpose of the N.S.A., policy matters, and past projects. Then, for a period of three weeks, they will work as apprentices on present N.S.A. college committees prior to stepping into their new positions...
Princeton, unable to attend the meet, was forced to default...
Ernest Reuter, the Lord Mayor of blockaded Berlin, came to Washington to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors and was cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention...
...most tragic visitor of the week was Russia's famed Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He came to New York to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (see below). A symbol of the harshness of the police state, he spoke like a Communist politician and acted as though he were impelled by hidden clock work rather than the mind which had composed resounding music...
Bishop Taguchi of Osaka and Msgr. Furuya accepted. Led by Takahashi and Kataoka, resplendent in dusty morning coats, 800 villagers crammed the town hall to attend Mass, while hundreds more, in their best go-to-meeting clothes, waited patiently outside. When it was over, a village spokesman pledged Saga's entire population to "throw away the world of superstition and embrace the true faith...