Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Event the Foreign Minister, Chou En-lai, had trouble placing me on one occasion. I was swimming on the Peking city team and we had an exhibition when the British swimmers were racing the Chinese national team. Chou came down from the stands to greet the team after the meet, and appeared puzzled at finding a Westerner wearing a Peking swimsuit, instead of a British one. He looked back and forth between me and the Britishers for a second; finally he shrugged and, smiling, held out his hand...
Grenier's linguistic skill runs deeper than assembling musical combinations of tones and letters. He uses the combinations to construct vivid visual and emotional scenes. "Grodek" pictures a battlefield strewn with casualties, among which a nurse walks "to greet the ghosts of heroes, bleeding heads...
Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and leading critic of U.S. involvement in South Vietnam, will speak at 3 p.m. tonight at Rindge Tech. His speech is sponsored by the Young Dems and the SDS, who will greet him at Logan Airport...
...always wanted to stay in the background," he insists, primping his scraggly, Prince Valiant locks. But his attire could hardly be called a camouflage. Standard costume: stiletto-pointed boots with three-inch Cuban heels, tight pants, cloth cap, Davy Crockett pullover. He ignores the rude hoots that greet his progress down the street, confides that "in case of real trouble I could literally kill a guy. I've studied karate for years...
...certain empty, vacant stare signifies that you have suddenly become transparent, virtually non-existent; a special way of moving the lips without uttering a sound makes it plain that the General is no longer listening, that he is preparing to greet the next person...