Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being privileged to greet the New Year
...town had been without water and light for weeks; now, everything had been arranged to unload the plane and greet the officials who came along with it from Leopoldville. But as the big U.N. Globemaster rolled to a stop with its cargo of electric generators, everything dissolved into typically Congolese chaos...
...just like the old days. "Lemme hear them tills ring!" Toots yelled. To his eleven-year-old son Rory, Shor called "C'm on, little Toots! Drink up! Have a little booze!" A young Roman Catholic priest entered diffidently, and Shor bounded over to him to greet him with a hug and a kiss. It was "Father Bill" McCormick of Brooklyn, who had blessed the new restaurant for Shor a day earlier. "That's the kind of place it is," Shor explained later. "A place where children can come, a place where the clergy comes. Everybody feels...
...display his feelings toward Reuther by calculated insult. Both as a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and as one of John Kennedy's hardest working supporters during the 1960 campaign, Reuther had every right to expect that he would be placed on the committee assigned to greet President Kennedy at the labor convention. But Meany deliberately left Reuther's name off the committee list, assigned him instead to escort a subsequent convention visitor-Eleanor Roosevelt...
...tour the Queen attended state receptions, inspected hospitals, reviewed troops in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia. At a ceremonial durbar in the Sierra Leone provincial town of Bo, some of the paramount chiefs got so high on palm wine that they had to be carried to greet "Mama Queen II" (Queen Victoria was Mama Queen...