Word: greets
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...Haven, his fears were unfounded. Governor Barnett's peroration in Sanders Theatre last spring was the occasion of no more than orderly picketing by civil rights groups and a polite hearing by an integrated audience. Surely Yale is not so much less sophisticated than Harvard that it cannot greet a detestable man with civility...
...seven-story Leopoldville building that serves as U.N. headquarters in the Congo once buzzed with daily crises; today its corridors are quiet and staffers greet one another with: "What are your plans?" At a U.N. airstrip, Swedish jet pilots kill time by strafing a damaged aircraft on the ground. "Using up ammunition," an officer explains. "We won't take it home...
...about fat old men who don't even know what month it is are clearly not for everybody, especially if the old man speaks Bengali and the English subtitles twitch. Besides, the film is about 20 minutes too long. But people with a tolerance for the bizarre will greet this work by India's Satyajit Ray (who made the magnificent Apu trilogy) as a subtle and poignant tragedy of pride, the story of a man who cut his own throat to remind the world that his blood was blue...
...were recruited from the Chinese main land. While the amah (literally, "little mother") cooked, cleaned and looked after the children, the colonel's lady or planter's wife spent her mornings at tennis, her afternoons at bridge, and appeared freshly starched on the veranda at sundown to greet her returning husband with cold stingers, hot curry and eternal complaint about the hardships of life in the tropics...
...shadow sweeps across North America to the populated parts of Canada and Maine, amateur observers will swarm to greet it. The path of totality will cut through Maine in a 60-mile swath where a deep twilight will fall. As seen from Boston, the sun will be 94.4% covered. In New York the crescent will look thicker: 88.7% covered; in St. Louis, 67.1%. In Los Angeles the sun will be dented (26.4% ); in Mexico City barely nicked...