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...customary hospitality was ready when Kissinger's 707 landed in Cairo. President Sadat extended a graceful welcome to "my friend Dr. Kissinger." Ailing with influenza, Sadat had risen from a sickbed to greet the Secretary, and his words could scarcely be heard at a press conference following their discussions at Giza Residence...
...first obvious twist to this simple plot came late Monday night, when the New American Movement called for a picket line to greet Colby the next evening. About 150 people braved a steady drizzle Tuesday outside the Faculty Club, while Colby was reportedly running into some hostile questioning inside. He did not, however, say much that was startling...
...when the library is opened and the visitors stream into Cambridge, Kanavos wants to be ready to greet them with a clean bed for the night and, perhaps more importantly under the new environmental regulations, a parking space...
Chukhrai does not hesitate to create sentimental scenes: Shura and Alyosha waving to each other as his train pulls away, Alyosha's mother running breathless and perspiring from her work in the fields to greet him. But somehow, in this context, anything less than sentimentality would be unsatisfactory. War has torn a society apart, and for a few brief moments its victims are struggling to recapture a past forever lost, or discover experiences never known. Absent is the business-as-usual optimism of most American films about the Second World War. There is a sense in Ballad of a Soldier...
Several citizens expressed mixed reactions to the Harvard policy. "I greet this plan with gratitude but with worry and suspicion," George H. Carter, a Cambridge resident said...