Word: greet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his journey across Poland, John Paul was trying to measure the great historical and psychological divide that separates this pilgrimage from his triumphal return in June 1979. His first homecoming had been spontaneously jubilant, as Poles in the millions turned out to greet a favorite son who had left for Rome eight months before as a Cardinal and come back as the first Polish Pope in history. The experience of standing shoulder to shoulder in quiet defiance of the country's Communist rulers had helped prepare the way for Solidarity's rise...
...interview last month with the underground weekly Tygodnik Mazowsze, Bujak had promised to come out of hiding and be "somewhere along the route to greet the Pope." Despite the bravado, the estimated 50 members of the underground are in a quandary about what to do next. As the spontaneous display of support in Warsaw last week illustrated, Solidarity still commands the allegiance of a substantial part of the Polish population. But none of that translates into real political
...that had assembled anywhere in Poland since the Pope's 1979 visit, jammed Warsaw's Tenth Anniversary soccer stadium for an open-air Mass on the second day of the Pope's visit. Some of them had arrived more than 24 hours early in order to greet the Pontiff. The crowd included delegations from Gdansk, Poznan, Radom, Lublin and other Polish cities. There were uniformed boy scouts, nurses in white tunics, peasant women in brightly colored scarves, and Silesian miners in black uniforms and tall hats topped with black feathers. Farmers from Lowicz, 50 miles southwest...
...Cuban insurrection. At Omdurman, he rode in the British army's last great cavalry charge during Kitchener's campaign to reconquer the Sudan. He became a national hero by escaping from his Boer captors in South Africa in 1899. The following year he was prepared to greet the new century as a Member of Parliament, a novelist and traveling lecturer. In America, Mark Twain presented him with a limited edition of his works inscribed, "To do good is noble; to teach others to do good is nobler, and no trouble...
...1950s, the office of the marshal has three functions: to greet first-time visitors in the name of Harvard's president, to send Harvard delegates to presidential inauguration ceremonies at universities around the world, and to prepare for the historic pomp that surrounds Commencement Day every year...