Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here," sniffs one Brahmin observer, "clothes are not status symbols," a fact sustained by the regular appearance on well-bred shoulders of the old orange mink. Atlantans, on the other hand, greet the new elegance with antebellum ardor, consider it out of the question to appear anywhere but at a cocktail party in anything but formal, full-length dress...
Portuguese Anger. Not everyone is as pleased by the congress as are India's 6,200,000 Roman Catholics. Although President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri will greet the Pope in Bombay, many Indian officials are miffed that Paul refused to visit New Delhi. The papal trip also cuts no ice with Portugal, which has never forgiven India for seizing its old colony of Goa in 1961. In honor of the Bom bay congress, Goa is exposing for 44 days of veneration its most famous relic, the mummified body of the 16th century Jesuit Missionary...
...illustrate why: "Once during the Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from any white woman, preceded by a signal apprising them of' the arrival of 'Evelyn Waugh, English writer.' The entire small corps of officers, shaven and polished, turned out to greet me each bearing a bouquet." His childhood in Edwardian England he remembers as idyllic, "an even glow of pure happiness." His memories of boyhood are vividly visual, from his nursery wallpaper (a pattern of medieval figures) to the beauties of the countryside and villages, which were rapidly being destroyed...
Certainly, then, Keating does not have Kennedy's "electricity." He will arrive at a street corner for a scheduled "walking tour" of the area and if the advance men have done their work well, an enthusiastic crowd will greet him. For the first few minutes he will be surrounded...
President and Mrs. Pusey will be at home Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. to greet members of the Faculties, others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...