Word: greet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formidable mother, Miss Lillian, was freely available at the old railroad depot, dispensing her startling wit and candor. His brother Billy was cheerfully posing for snapshots at the gas pump, permanent beer can ominously poised. Even the President-elect and his wife were visible, making occasional forays to greet childhood friends or to eat at the nearest restaurants-every forkful watched for significance by a merciless post-Watergate press corps. A sizable slice of the citizenry willingly guided the influx of strangers round the sites-Jimmy's birthplace, his country home, his father's simple grave. (The ambitious...
...launching a kind of pre-emptive strike against the backbiting that often goes on over the capital's dinner tables, especially against a President who seems to be an aloof outsider. Accordingly, his aides sent invitations ("When Nancy and I are in Washington next week, we hope to greet old friends and make new ones") to the people who run the city. "Are you sure this is serious?" one incredulous invitee asked in a phone call to Reagan's transition office. "I'm a lifelong Democrat...
Undaunted, the Reagans started to walk into the White House. But before they could disappear inside, they nearly caromed off a flustered First Couple dashing belatedly up to greet their successors. Jimmy and Rosalynn quickly shepherded the Reagans back outside as the President pointed ostentatiously at his watch and said, "I think they're a little early." "A little bit early," Reagan chimed in. Now officially met, the two couples, each with arms entwined, dutifully smiled and shook hands for the press. Then they about-faced and marched off, the women to the private quarters, the men along...
Good Morning returns at 7:30 with another look at the headlines, and at 7:40, while Lunden is admiring the diamond-all 107 carats and $22 million of it-Hartman slips away to greet Begin. Hartman makes a rather weak joke about an ABC executive ordering him not to ask any tough questions, but Begin fails to understand. At 7:45 the two men sit down in front of the cameras. They talk for seven minutes, a near eternity by TV standards, and Hartman asks about the wounded Arab students. A regrettable incident, Begin replies. During a commercial break...
...over his audiences, nonetheless, with sermons in fluent German and his personal warmth. He joshed a boy about skipping school to greet him, and prayed that kidnapers would release an eleven-year-old girl being held for ransom near Karlsruhe. The size of the crowds was modest only by John Paul's usual standards. More than half a million braved stiff breezes for a youth Mass at Munich's Oktoberfest grounds...