Word: greetings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After he speaks, Kennedy will go directly to Sanders Theater "just to greet the students and thank them for coming out," Beal said...
VOTA CONNALLY PRESIDENTE read the white polo shirts of the welcomers who had turned out to greet their candidate at his hotel in San Juan. When John Connally arrived on the island the previous night he was wearing blue pinstripes, but this morning he appeared in an embroidered white cotton shirt called a guayabera. Waving and smiling in the blazing sunshine, the candidate bounded onto an orange sightseeing bus, and the seven-vehicle motorcade lurched off toward city hall. As the procession crept along the traffic-snarled Las Americas Expressway, the candidate began booming out "Buenos días" from...
...greatest challenges of her reign, however, came not from the political arena but from troubles within the royal family itself. In the 1950s she nearly caused a constitutional crisis by her involvement with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans, whose help she had sought to cure her semiblind youngest daughter, Maria Christina. Another shock came in 1964; although the House of Orange has been staunchly Protestant for 400 years, Daughter Irene converted to Catholicism in order to marry Carlos Hugo, an exiled Spanish prince. Two years later, Crown Princess Beatrix caused a public outcry by marrying German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg...
...twenty to four the President still had not arrived. General Spinola had finished his meal, and was anxious to meet the President. Wallraff could only stall for time: he had only learned of Spinola's visit the day before, and had not yet succeeded in finding a 'President' to greet him. The previous night he had approached several friends--a lawyer, a doctor, a publisher, a member of the Bundestag, a vicar and several professional actors--but none would agree to play the role. Now, despite frequent and frantic telephone calls, Wallraff could not find a suitable President. At four...
...escalation of political violence, Soames asked both Mugabe and Nkomo to delay their own arrivals into Salisbury. When the two leaders do return, under heavy security, they are almost certain to arouse huge popular demonstrations. Obviously Soames was not yet prepared to risk the possible hostility that might also greet them...