Word: greet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...momentarily last August, when they read reports issuing from the National News Agency that the Queen had "promised' to do all in her own power to reach a reconciliation with her husband (TIME, Sept. 3). Juliana, it was said, had not only agreed to see no more of Greet Hofmans, the faith healer whose influence had driven a wedge -between the Queen and Prince Bernhard, but planned to eliminate Hofmans supporters from the royal household...
Early this week, with his Kefauver assignment completed, Connery stopped in Chicago long enough to greet his wife and two small children, pick up some clean shirts and head...
...face a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust at me the usual welcoming bouquet, which I, not being endowed with three hands, frantically considered gripping with my teeth. Estes, pumping away with both fists, looked over at me, a little annoyed. Above the hubbub of wind, propellers and introductions, he called out, 'Honey...
Comparing the Bolshevik Revolution with his countrymen's own 1949 revolt against the Dutch, Sukarno plugged for Soviet support in his aim to add West New Guinea to his fledgling republic. "In Indonesia," he told the engineers, "the revolutionaries . . . greet each other with the cry of merdeka, which means freedom . . . I ask you now to join me in exclaiming merdeka five times." Dutifully the freedomless Russians roared the strange new word. And from then on it was the vociferous cheer of welcome for the sprightly visitor from southern Asia...
Hard-Boiled Eggs. On hand to greet the visitors and deliver an explanatory lecture was the collection's proud assembler and owner, 31-year-old Detroit Industrialist Lawrence A. Fleischman, vice president of his family's Detroit carpet company, part owner of two TV stations and a rotary-press company. Born of poor Russian immigrant parents, Fleischman scraped through hard times, remembers when the family lived on nothing but hard-boiled eggs for days. As a youth he pitched in to help his father run a small linoleum store in Detroit. After the elder Fleischman nourished his shop...