Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small-Holder Protest. Outside the Cabinet, Castro fought for his law with threats, cajolery and left-wing bombast. "Land reform will not be stopped even if the sky rains spikes," he angrily told the National Newsmen's Association. In the Havana Hilton's glittering banquet room, he pleaded with 1,000 lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend...
...Bill. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while holding their annual convention at the Galt Ocean Mile Hotel, the 200 members of the Florida Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous consumed 449 gallons of coffee in three days, polished off another 35 gallons at a single banquet...
Honored last week at a House banquet were Alan L. Goldman and Peter J. Frederick as the outstanding seniors in Kirkland House sports throughout the year...
...year campaign came to and end at a Memorial Hall banquet last Saturday night when President Pusey accepted the $388,000 endowment from Young. The original goal...
...Thyssen collection of old masters runs to some 500 works, including dozens that rival even the Holbein in quality. But this banquet for the eyes is off the tourist track at Lugano, tucked away in a wing of Thyssen's cypress-shaded palazzo. Made public partly for tax purposes, the museum is not open all year or every day, but whoever gets to Lugano between April 1 and Nov. 1 can take the trolley to the Thyssen estate and present himself at the gates Friday through Monday for one of the treats of his life...