Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tandem. East Berlin diplomats received handsome engraved invitations to a reception honoring B. and K. For 24 hours after Moscow's last-minute announcement that Premier Bulganin would not be a member of the party, one long red banner strung across an East Berlin building said simply: WE GREET, and when finally finished read: WE GREET THE GLORIOUS SOVIET LEADERS...
...Calhoun of the Evening Star Baptist Church of Gary, Ind.), the couple moved from the chapel set into the "reception room" with its artificial ivy, phony fireplace and tableload of shiny booty. The stagehands had already poured the Moet & Chandon champagne, and NBC had trundled in Jackie Robinson to greet the newlyweds. After some cued-in applause and plugs for Jackie (as an executive of Chock Full o' Nuts and publicity man for Look), there was a telegram from Floyd Patterson, also arranged by NBC: "All the world is in your corner." Then in rich, sepulchral tones, Announcer Paige...
...afternoon last week, to a blare of trumpets from the Royal Horse Guards, Queen Mother Elizabeth stepped through a new oak door in an old stone doorway and looked about her at the reborn All Hallows, The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cullum Welch, was on hand to greet her, and the Bishop of London, Dr. Henry Montgomery Campbell. Thirty of the Winant Volunteers and All Hallows' Assistant Curate John Bassett Frederick, of Cheshire, Conn., stood by while Vicar Clayton escorted the Queen Mother to a chair made from the pulpit door of 1613, and the service of rededication...
Against the Light. "I'm not making any excuses for Beck," says a Seattle retailer. "But I can remember how, until recently, friends of mine would cross the street in traffic against the light just to be able to greet him because it might come in handy...
Former Advocate editor T.S. Eliot cabled his remarks: "Your cablegram arrived too late/ And insufficiently addressed/ So you confuse my modest muse/ Who none the less cannot refuse/ Compliance with your kind request/ To greet The Harvard Advocate...