Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queen is one of the world's great stage presences, and Reagan fondly recalls his dinner in the castle. "At this magnificent banquet at which you had close to 200 people at a single table, you sit in the middle, the Queen and I on one side and Nancy and Prince Philip on the other. When the toasts are over, the two of us exit down that table. The footmen pull the chairs back, and the Lord Chamberlain precedes us walking backward. I suddenly saw this tiny figure beside me walking along waving her hand. She's steering...
...alumni fund-raising. He is considered one of the most successful Harvard representatives helping out with the ongoing $150 million capital fund drive, and development officials report that the former dean of the Law School actually enjoys stepping out in front of a crowd on the Harvard Club banquet circuit--as long as he has his speech ready beforehand...
...world's most populous democracy. Clad in a silk sari, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was met on the White House South Lawn last week by the President of the world's most powerful democracy. Her White House visit, highlighted by a glittering state banquet, was part of a whirlwind tour of America intended to reverse a decade of cool relations between the two countries. With a grandeur and grace that was reciprocated by her hosts, the Prime Minister succeeded both symbolically and substantively...
...epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet. Four days later, Watt reiterated his dinner-table chatter by mail...
...degree or another, these devices all work; there are no duds. But it's a losing battle, and no one gets much help from Shakespeare; all the characters talk as if, in the vexed exclamation of Marshall as the page Moth, "they have been at a great banquet of languages, and stole the scraps...