Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy to greet her new secretary and companion, United Nations Guide Linda Barone, then plunged on to Chicago, where she opens the Lyric Opera's season in Verdi's Falstaff. Two and a half weeks later she will open the 74th season of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera in Tosca...
...Victor's Open Kitchen on the western edge of Batavia, N.Y., the breakfast order of poached eggs, toast and coffee was routine. But the customer obviously was not. While his eggs poached, he table-hopped to shake hands. He ducked behind the counter to greet the cook, the counterman, the waitresses and the busboy. For each, he flashed a broad smile, his forehead crinkled into wrinkles. "Hello, I'm Nelson Rockefeller," he said. "I'm running for Governor. It's a real pleasure to say hello to you." When the eggs were served, the candidate invited...
...Suzanne Bloch) arrived in the nearby port of Santos, Chatô threw a shipboard champagne party to welcome them. In 1952, when Van Gogh's Schoolboy arrived in the capital city of Bahia, Chatô saw to it that school was let out and the new acquisition greeted by thousands of cheering students. Recently Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek turned over the presidential palace to greet another shipment of art, and Brazil's Foreign Minister staged a reception at Itamarati Palace to welcome a load of sculpture...
Moscow's reddest carpet rolled out last week, not for a visiting Communist, but for a Homburged, blue-suited visitor who looked like what he is: a capitalist tycoon. On hand to greet the TU-104 jet that brought Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton (Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Steep Rock Iron Mines) were crowds of children bearing flowers, and Soviet Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich bearing official greetings. Three years ago Eaton gave Matskevich's department a prize Shorthorn bull, which had nobly performed to improve the quality of Russia's herds...
...midnight on Oct. 22, 1942, Clark's submarine spotted a flickering light on an Algerian coastal bluff. It was the signal to row ashore, that the way was clear. W'hen Clark and his team reached shore, Bob Murphy was on hand to greet them: "Welcome to North Africa." That day, in a red-roofed villa on the road to Algiers. Clark and Murphy ate bread, jam and sardines, plotted the North African invasion with French leaders brought by Murphy. Suddenly the telephone rang, followed by the cry: "The police will be here in a few minutes." Tipped...