Word: greets
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...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
...subjects were on hand to greet him. The airfield and the roads near by were guarded by 10,000 soldiers, black-helmeted gendarmes armed with carbines, and squads of special police in riot cars. Motorcycle squads preceded Leopold's car while 17 truckloads of police and four armored cars followed him. The procession went through deserted streets, avoiding Brussels' center. On the walls there were freshly painted signs, "Abdicate!" and "Down With Leopold III," but the King gave no indication that he saw them...
...German company moving up to the Cassino front. The major character, Pfc. Gühler, obviously a facsimile of Author Richter, believes that the Nazi army is doomed; his buddies are beginning to doubt the Führer's omnipotence. Some German soldiers, hoping to be captured, greet each other with the wisecrack, "Auf Wiedersehen in Kanada...
Composer Andriessen's score was straightforward and melodious, underlining the rising tension of the plot. And he gave his two first-rate Dutch sopranos, Louise de Vries (Philomela) and Greet Koeman (the sister) singing roles that were powerful, dramatic and sometimes rhapsodic. When the curtain came down, the jampacked audience was not quite sure whether it had seen the dawn of a "great national school." But, said one Amsterdam University professor: "This evening was very encouraging...
...took the court a few hours to acquit the duchess, sentence Don Bernardo to 18 months in jail (two other defendants got shorter prison terms). After the trial, the duchess, chic and cool in a tailored grey suit and gunmetal-colored nylons, appeared on a balcony to greet the crowds waiting in the street 'below. Then she went home. She immediately sent a message to Don Juan, exiled pretender to the Spanish throne. Said she: "I have cabled my King that I am free...