Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the rolling plains of Iowa last week in a Chevrolet station wagon cruised a trim, taut, fast-moving man with a bristling crew cut and a businesslike air. His days were an 18-hour succession of Republican breakfasts, Kiwanis Club luncheons, women's teas, greetings on Main Street, conversations in corn fields and gasoline-station stops. The gas stations were important. There he would shake hands with the man at the pump, greet the mechanic, stride into the diner for a word with the fry cook and a cup of coffee with the customers. The Iowa traveler...
...wrench at his own party, his monkeyshines prove otherwise; e.g., he has neglected to instruct his 20,000 state employees to 1) contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet President Eisenhower on his arrival in Lexington, the jovial Happy pointedly announced that he would have a previous engagement when Adlai Stevenson comes a-calling...
...overcast, the clouds had lifted enough to permit a safe landing by Ground Controlled Approach, the procedure by which operators "talk" a plane down onto a field. As London's GCA operator went to work, a respectful crowd of high-ranking airmen and their wives stood by to greet the Vulcan's distinguished crew of war heroes. The pilot was Squadron Leader Donald Howard, D.F.C., and his copilot was none other than Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, chief of Britain's Bomber Command. Lady Broadhurst waited with their four-year-old daughter on the airport apron...
...comforting indeed. The only trouble was that in Queen Juliana's mind matters were not so neatly settled. Reading the printed reports, she seethed. Since when did a Queen of the House of Orange have to promise anything to her confidential advisers? Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group. The only change made in the royal household was a minor one planned before the "three wise men" were called in for help. Meanwhile, the nation itself was in the midst...
...sent the party on a breakneck 82-mile round-trip drive to the Mackinac Straits Bridge, which Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams insisted on showing to Kefauver for the benefit of photographers. A padlock had to be broken before the candidate could get on the structure after nightfall-to greet a crowd of five workmen and one woman who had waited three hours for him. In the absence of any great demand from photographers, Governor Williams used his own camera...