Word: greets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building houses the chairman of the Board of NL Industries, Ray Adam. In contrast to the massive security at the AT&T building, a single receptionist guards a wide hallway leading to the plush, carpeted depths of the office. Once I get inside, Adam immediately arrives to greet me, relaxed and smiling. Where deButts lectures, Adam chats; he calls me by my first name repeatedly, and in spite of myself, I am disarmed...
...restrained joy of treaty morning had ripened into the Baptist version of fun by that night. Old angers were left outside the big top. Warmth flowed along with the California wine. Clark Clifford, waiting for the President to greet the crowd, was a man who had always been suspicious of the show of religion in statecraft. Still, touched by the spiritual nature of the day's events, he found himself wishing that Carter would say grace, something that has never been done in memory at a state dinner. Almost as if there had been thought transference. Carter then announced...
...headquarters of the revolution were in a highly improbable setting: the Alavi elementary school in the bazaar section of Tehran where Khomeini lived. There, in two cramped and dingy rooms on the second floor, he would shuffle to the window a dozen times a day to greet the unending sea of believers who came to hail him. Elsewhere in the same school, in a drab classroom furnished with three desks, a file cabinet and a typewriter, Prime Minister Bazargan ran the government. He sat cross-legged on a rug-covered wooden platform where he took his meals, greeted visitors...
...polyester suit. He was sitting behind a bulbous steel microphone, the type that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...
...began. Here the first missionaries to the Americas recited Mass in 1494 during Columbus' second voyage, and here were built the first cathedral and convent in the Western Hemisphere. At the airport, the white-clad Pontiff knelt to kiss the ground. Unexpectedly, four U.S. Cardinals were there to greet him. After a motorcade he celebrated Mass at the main square of Santo Domingo for a crowd of 300,000 or more...