Word: greet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stevens was on hand to greet Khrushchev as part of a nine-man force assembled for TIME'S on-the-scene coverage of the U.N. session. The others, covering their special fields or assigned to specific facets of the story, were Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, State Department Correspondent John Beal, Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, New York Correspondents George Bookman and Bill Smith, Chicago Senior Correspondent Murray Gart and Montreal Bureau Chief Gavin Scott...
...them-lined the streets to cheer him and to wave placards (WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU, IKE) as if he were a fighter climbing into the ring. Even the customary show of political partisanship was gone; Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, who had never seen fit to greet the President on past visits, rode into town with...
...subjected the patient Swede to three-quarters of an hour of hoarse, ululating Spanish. Only the day before, New York cops had eased him back into his limousine when he wanted to stop along the highway from Idlewild Airport to harangue loyal Cubans who had turned out to greet him in the rain. He railed against Manhattan's lack of hospitality; he denounced the Shelburne's demand for a $10,000 bond to pay for possible damage. "We'll sleep in the U.N. garden or in Central Park!" Fidel threatened. Hammarskjold countered with a polite invitation...
...would have been charged for the same supply of beds-and $440 more than Castro's daily bill at the Shelburne-but for Fidel it was a bargain. As soon as his press men passed the word that he was heading for Harlem, huge crowds turned out to greet him. Curious Negroes who cared little for his politics jostled Puerto Ricans and Cubans, who consider him their champion. Squads of cops were called into action...
...Greensboro-High Point airport, 500 Carolinians rushed up to Nixon's plane to greet him. He was well prepared: besieged for autographs, he reached into his pocket for cards he had machine signed earlier. At Greensboro's War Memorial Auditorium, which can be used for either summer ice skating or speech making, the G.O.P. had decided on "An Evening of Skating and Coffee with Dick and Pat," on the ground that with the rink open, fewer seats would have to be filled. But a crowd of 9,000 jammed the hall and spilled into the aisles. Another...