Word: greets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subway starts to roll. Waves of passengers greet the frowning guardsmen. "This way, ma'am, stay on the other side of the yellow rope," the MPs say, and they all do as they are told, most walking down Tremont Street in search of a coffee shop. Dunkin Donuts, the first to open, sells 6 dozen donuts in under a minute, and the proprietor stares with dismay at the disappearing stocks of crullers and jelly-filled. "Shit, we need more donuts. I should have made more donuts," he mutters...
...street corner, the Boston Globe delivery truck pulls up carrying the early morning edition of the city's largest paper. "City to Greet Pope Today," the front page blares. But for the Globe there is even more important news. The price of the paper has gone up 20 per cent overnight. The first subway crowd is clamoring for the papers, mostly because they realize that the hillside they will sit on for the next twelve hours is cold...
Yellow-cuffed ushers hand out small programs with the words of Boston's archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, are blessed indeed to be the first to greet him on the shores of our generous, hospitable and beloved country," Medeiros says...
Earlier today, I set foot on the soil of the United States of America. In the name of Christ I begin a pastoral journey that will take me to several of your cities. At the beginning of this year, I had the occasion to greet this continent and its people from a place where Christopher Columbus landed; today I stand at this gateway to the United States, and again I greet all of America. For its people, wherever they are, have a special place in the love of the Pope...
...Pope is coming to Boston, but many of the two million faithful expected to turn out to greet him may come to Cambridge to park their cars...