Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to the refugee camps, and we visited them around Saigon, in Hue, most intensively in the city of Quang Ngai, a visit to these camps brought out one thing which I had not quite been prepared for. As you walked through the camp, looking around, smiling at people, greeting people, children run around your legs as children will anyplace in the world, having great fun. Even the women might smile back when you greet them. However, from the men, regardless what their age was, we got a very sullen stare in response...
...when, if ever, Franco will restore the monarchy, and to whom, if anyone, he will give the crown. Franco plays the game, too, by scattering contradictory clues, and last week he was playing it with obvious relish. He allowed Spain's monarchists to organize a mass rally to greet Queen Victoria Eugenia at the airport, but restricted TV coverage to a 17-second film strip. He himself declined to meet the plane but sent his Air Force Minister. When he showed up for the baptism, he agreed to observe royal protocol by allowing Pretender Don Juan to wait...
Such tactics no doubt contributed to the failure of the Vietnamese to heed the call to a "general uprising." No sooner had the general offensive got under way than both the Viet Cong radio and Radio Hanoi began calling for the South Vietnamese to greet the attackers as liberators, for ARVN soldiers to throw in their arms with the Communists and help overthrow the Thieu government. In Hué and Saigon, the Communists announced the formation of revolutionary Committees of the Alliance of National and Peace Forces. But throughout South Viet Nam there were few takers. In Danang, when a Viet...
...John Tower, the Republican front-runner attacked Lyndon Johnson by name, parodying his State of the Union message. "Can this nation afford to have four more years of Lyndon Johnson's policies that have failed at home and abroad?" he asked Dallas Republicans who braved rainy skies to greet him. "Never in history has the United States been in more trouble in more places than today. Never has so much diplomatic and military strength been used so inadequately as by this Administration." ¶ Ronald Reagan has added $2,000,000 to the Republican Party's campaign chest...
...skull was fractured. Staring at the ceiling, the man replied: "I don't know." Turning to the other side of the aisle, Romney found a Marine whose right leg had been amputated. "Do you have a girl friend?" he asked. The Marine said flatly: "Yes." Then Romney started to greet some Vietnamese patients, but when told they were captured Viet Cong, he turned away...