Word: fete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stern message to deliver about at least one troublous area: Red China and Formosa. His speech, delivered in Manhattan at the twelfth annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, came against the background of Red China's saber-rattling tenth anniversary fete fortnight ago, when Communist Defense Minister Lin Piao, with Khrushchev on hand, condemned the U.S., proclaimed that nobody would be permitted to interfere in Peking's "liberation" of Formosa...
...golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis, seemed at times more like a U.S. college May fete than a religious rite. It ended with a boy scout band, possibly fresh out of nonrepeat tunes, playing Swanee River...
Hollywood's Grace Kelly and Monaco's Prince Rainier III announced that they will be married twice (in civil and Roman Catholic ceremonies) during a four-day fete, slated for an April 18th opening gun in Monaco. Among all sorts of folks on the guest list: hot-trumpeting Bandleader Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who announced that he and his cats will jive up one of the receptions...
...infants and designated a "national monument" by the government. To make matters worse, the five, in the old man's view, had all turned out unsatisfactorily. "At their mother's funeral," he fumes, "they appeared, wearing gloves!" Nevertheless, the committee decides to go ahead with the fete, dispatches the boys' godfather to round them up. As portrayed by Fernandel, they are an odd lot indeed...
...Chief Priest Hamano broke into unashamed sobs of happiness during his speech, and the U.S. Air Force band joined in the welcome by playing When the Saints Go Marching In. To mark the return of the tsurigane, the temple last week restored its monthly Go-Ennichi (Honorable Fete Day) for the first time since 1943. As the bell looked down on the scene from a temporary belfry, worshipers thronged the temple, and nearby streets echoed to Japanese folk dances. Said a temple priest: "May the relations between Japan and the U.S. be as imperishable as this tsurigane...