Word: greet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd booed the President's name when Stevenson referred' to him as an honorable if misguided man ("Oh, he is an honorable man, my friends"). When Adlai flew out of Los Angeles for Phoenix, Ariz, (where a crowd of 1,500 waited until 2 a.m. to greet him at the airport), he left behind him a California Democratic organization crowing that he had a real chance to carry the state...
...serious antipathy toward him in the state. They told him not to expect much of a reception, to be prepared for small turnouts and open hostility. When he rode into Hartford's Bushnell Park at noon one October day a crowd of some 8,000 was there to greet and cheer him. Connecticut G.O.P. leaders were amazed; Nixon was reassured...
...anti-Nixon feeling." There were 2,200 at the railroad station in Lansing, 5,000 at Battle Creek, 2,500 at Kalamazoo (about twice the crowd Stevenson drew) and 2,000 at Niles. Across Lake Michigan, in Chicago's Loop, more than 200,000-the biggest crowd to greet a visitor there since General Douglas MacArthur came home in 1951-thronged State Street to hail the Vice President...
...with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown by the thousands. Many had trekked for days through the parched African bush to be there in time for his arrival. "Our chief is home again!" they screamed as the aircraft touched down and the returning exile emerged to greet his Uncle Tshekedi, whose complaints about Seretse's marriage to a white woman (still in London but soon to join her husband) had sparked all the trouble eight years...
...band played, floats lined the streets, a mob jammed the station and cheered. South Bend, Ind. was out in force to greet the NBC Opera Company as if it were a conquering football team. When the curtain opened on Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in the new $2,500,000 arts center of St. Mary's College, the house was packed; when it closed, the audience was happily enthusiastic. It was a rousing send-off for a costly experiment by NBC -to send its opera company barnstorming across the country to bring first-rate opera to towns...