Word: banqueted
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...Lawn and the Softball game in progress on the Ellipse to the great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here at 6:30 in the morning, and on Sunday mornings we read the pa pers out here. It is beautiful. After sup per, after a banquet, I'll bring foreign leaders up here - Sadat, Schmidt...
...Perhaps, but the girls didn't mind. Nor did they balk at a slave auction, in which the prettiest sold for up to $50 in aid of a book fund. Successful bidders got a coed for the day to rub their backs, feed them grapes at a Roman banquet that night-and do whatever else that might pass by the watchful chaperones...
...foreign policy issues to which Carter has contributed most are those with a distinct moral tone, and his nearly evangelical championing of human rights has become his hallmark. Seldom does he hold a press conference, offer a banquet toast or make a speech without mentioning it. At times Carter has been more direct, as when he delayed the sale of small arms and police weapons to the authoritarian governments of Argentina, El Salvador and Uruguay because they violate the human rights of their own dissident citizens. Aware of the controversy the issue has stirred abroad, Carter said to TIME Diplomatic...
...purity by force during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, the diminutive (5 ft.) Teng was stripped of all his posts, driven by the Red Guards through the streets wearing a dunce cap, and dispatched to seven years in disgrace. In 1973 Teng made his first surprising reappearance, at a banquet in Peking. He soon became Vice Premier and the closest collaborator and heir presumptive of Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou's health had begun to fail, Teng headed a delegation to the United Nations in 1974-a hint that he might take over the Premier's role...
...after the bonfire, there was a regal procession from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral for a solemn thanksgiving service, followed by a lavish banquet at nearby Guildhall. By midmorning, men, women and children were standing 20 deep along the tree-lined mall that links the palace with Admiralty Arch. At 10:25 a.m., a carriage procession of members of the royal family clattered through the King's Door in the Royal Quadrangle, accompanied by a mounted escort of the Blues and Royals cavalry regiment. Princess Anne (expecting her first child in November) and her husband Captain...