Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lederhosen, beer, bratwurst, bargains--but no Wursthaus--will greet the attendees at tomorrow's 18th annual Oktoberfest...
...give everyone a chance to hear about Bob Dole's straightforward and honest goals. We outside were rained on a bit, and those inside cooked in the heat while Elizabeth Dole sailed through both the showers and the heat to deliver an enthusiastic speech and to stay to greet the many supporters who came out to hear about the kind of leadership we support in Washington. CATHERINE S. SELF Lexington, Kentucky...
...Adalbert's, a Catholic primary school on the city's tumbledown east side, it was business as usual. In a room full of first-graders, the rows of African-American boys were dressed in shirts and ties. When principal Lydia Harris entered, they stood at attention to greet her in unison. In the hallway outside, second-grade girls were heading quietly to lunch, all dressed in plaid jumpers and saddle shoes. Outside there might be squalor and chaos. In here, it was a blast from the past...
...seventh Democratic President to be elected to a second term, and began, "My fellow Americans, we have work to do, and that's what this election is all about." He must have used the word work two dozen times in his short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation's listening to Bob Dole's gothic baritone and Clinton's pleading lilt had been a sideshow that ended in one brief act of citizenship. Now the President and the people could return to the course...
...television, but some in the sparse morning crowd at the Valleyfair! amusement park in Minnesota can't quite place him--the big guy over there by the roller coaster. Maybe he's that football coach, Bill something. Bill Parcells? They aren't sure, and being Midwesterners, several greet him with a cautious "Hiya, coach." Bill Bennett just grins, nods and lets his son Joseph, 7, tow him away through the shimmering heat toward the bumper cars...