Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silent six-month cruise around the world, enigmatic ex-President Janio Quadros this week returns to Brazil, and to an Ash Wednesday welcome that well in advance was being built to heroic proportions. Some 6,000 workers from Rio de Janeiro were bound for the port of Santos to greet his ship. Bus caravans from all over Brazil are scheduled to take thousands more to cheer the prodigal's return...
...titles and credits come to an end, and X appears, walking through a hallway; he enters a small theater where the last scene of Rosmersholm comes to an end. Suddenly the audience, a group of young and well-dressed young people, spring to life; they greet each other and break into smaller groups to play cards and talk of their previous meetings a year ago in the same place. Their games and dances, their banal talk, constitute the second level...
...Canaveral, Glenn showed poignant emotion when he was reunited with his wife Anna. After a long hug and kiss, he wiped his eyes hastily with a handkerchief, then turned to embrace his children (David, 16 and Lyn, 14) and his mother and greet the other members of his family, who had flown down from Washington the night before with President Kennedy. Said John Glenn Sr., as he casually greeted his son: "How're you doing...
...cheering crowds lined the highway. Welcoming signs and banners decked the motels of Cocoa Beach. One banner read simply: WELCOME TO EARTH. Riding on the back of a white convertible, Glenn held Annie Glenn tightly with his right arm. At one point, Lyndon Johnson halted the motorcade to greet a small boy wearing a space helmet. Immediately the Glenn car was engulfed in well-wishers...
True to professional hockey's lusty tradition, loyal fans of the New York Rangers boo the visiting team, jeer at the referee and greet home-team blunders with showers of eggs and cries of "Ya jerk, ya"-a provincialism once reserved for the bumbling baseball players who inhabited Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week, when the New Yorkers blew a 2-1 lead to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a sullen crowd clustered outside the Ranger dressing room to taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump...