Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election by a vote of the returning varsity gridders was announced last night at the annual Harvard football banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...guest journalists met with a broad range of political figures, including Jaime Cardinal Sin and the widow of assassinated Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. They spent a total of five hours with President Ferdinand Marcos, first in a rigorous question-and-answer session (see WORLD) and then at a banquet that evening...
After the parade, partiers went to a banquet and North End residents and shop owners took a day off yesterday possibly to nurse hangovers...
Last week, however, the battleground finally shifted. Victor Karpov, the chief Soviet arms negotiator, sat down at the banquet-size table in the Botanic Building, the drab headquarters of the U.S. arms-control delegation across from Geneva's tidy botanical gardens, and began reading slowly from a lengthy document. For half an hour the Soviet negotiator droned on, speaking in the argot of nuclear weaponry. His monologue was technical and arcane, yet it was immensely important. At the least, it promised to deliver arms control from the realm of rhetoric to the real business of negotiated give-and-take over...
Inevitably, many countries have mounted efforts to counter the outflowing tide. An Israeli professional in the U.S. who considers going home, for example, receives a banquet of blandishments. The local consulate sends his or her resume to at least three prospective employers in Israel and helps the applicant finance a trip back home for job interviews. If the candidate accepts a position, the Israeli government makes available a host of benefits, including a handsome mortgage on a new house, loans to cover moving costs and a waiver of customs duties on everything except...