Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro, was in a quandary. How could it square recognition of Brazil with its traditional policy of nonrecognition of governments that came to power through a military coup? In Chile and Peru, some papers fretted over the possibility of a repressive military dictatorship. Washington, which was the first to greet the new regime with "warm wishes," hoped the arrests would not go too far. "Brazil needed cleaning up," said one high official, "but not a witch hunt...
...hoped to sing Fair Harvard at your graduation and greet you as a fellow alumnus," Mr. Atwood told Eric, "but in the circumstances I think it best you matriculate at UCLA." He broke off with a chuckle. "There are scads of pretty girls in Los Angeles. Before the first semester's over you'll have forgotten there ever was an Alice Holmes...
Chou was more amenable to Mrs. Bandaranaike's request for a handout. Ceylon's economy is as full of holes as the red carpet rolled out to greet Chou at Colombo's Ratmalana airport. U.S. aid has been cut off ever since Ceylon nationalized three American oil companies last year; when Mrs. Bandaranaike recently recognized East Germany, Bonn cut off its aid program. From Red China, Ceylon is receiving desperately needed machinery and industrial products. As a quid pro quo, China is seeking to use Ceylonese ports as transshipment centers for ships carrying goods to Africa, Europe...
...drum and bugle corps turned out to greet Goldwater in Littleton, N.H. (pop. 3,355). And in Lancaster, N.H. (pop. 2,392), they put together a parade too-a squad of high school boys carrying red railroad flares, followed by a shaggy pony pulling a cart containing Barry, who waved from beneath a buffalo robe. But crowds were not overwhelming, applause was skimpy, and after two days in New Hampshire it was becoming clear that Goldwater's campaign was not producing the whiz-bang reaction he had hoped...
...state university. And the expected drama is not missing from his account of the integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia in January, 1961. Students stone Charlayne's dormitory her first night on campus, they deface her car, and insults and abuse greet both Negroes throughout the university. But Trillin, a Yale graduate who writes for the New Yorker, does not dwell on these incidents. Instead he chooses to report the disillusionment and sense of loss that two Negroes experience when they leave the comfort of high-school success in an all-Negro environment...