Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors, a color scheme (snow white and green) to please the Empress, room for horohiki (ancient Imperial horsemanship), polo, garden parties, banquets, and the crowds that gather to greet the Emperor on his birthday and New Year's. In short, the finest building ever to grace Hirohito's reign...
...time was Louis B. Mayer, who was convinced that "those Selznick boys will come to no good." Proving him wrong, David left MGM, became a $104,000-a-year boss at Paramount-and married the crown princess herself, L. B. Mayer's daughter Irene. L.B. imperiously refused to greet Selznick at the wedding, though when David at 30 returned to the M-G-M fold, wags quipped, "The son-in-law also rises." It was a canard that was not buried until Mayer's 1957 will, in which L.B. noted that Son-in-Law Selznick, unlike other members...
Happy Birthday. The week's last party was for some 1,300 House and Senate staffers, and when Johnson emerged to greet them, he had in tow Henry Cabot Lodge, who had been called in to consult with the President about Viet Nam. Johnson praised the bipartisanship of congressional leaders and men like Lodge ("He's here for just one reason, and it isn't because he opposed me for the vice-presidency in 1960"), and reported that the 75 bills, 300 reports and 200 messages that he had sent to Congress since Jan. 4 had been...
Young Lyndon insisted upon respect from his pupils. He spanked disorderly boys, tongue-lashed the girls. He taught fifth, sixth and seventh grades, demanded that his classes greet him daily with a loyal refrain...
...concerts, the Stones' fans greet their heroes by suggestively wiggling two fingers in the air. Their appeal, one 16-year-old girl frankly admits, "is sex?but don't print that; my mother would...