Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after the Civil War began, the son of a country doctor who neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried by the boy's "hacking cough." At just about every crisis in his life, Will was able to find kindly acquaintances who would similarly ease his path by lending him money, giving him free room and board, finding him jobs...
...Nationalist Chinese capital of Taipei on Formosa. Kishi was met by a crowd of more than 600, whisked off from the airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
...Guest announcer for the Harvard Alumni Association Meeting will be Peter Pratt, former executive secretary of the association...
...community center in Delhi in memory of Gandhi to helping spread the vidyapeeths (rural universities) in Mysore and other states. In Burma the foundation's work is so highly regarded that when Rowan Gaither visited the country, Statesman U Nu took the unusual step of declaring him a guest of the state. Commented one Indonesian official: "The foundation does not interfere in our domestic politics. It's helping us strictly on humanitarian grounds...
...Gettysburg, it turned out, Adenauer did learn something about farming. After lunch (creamed chicken), Ike guided his guest around the farm, lectured him on the care and breeding of Abderdeen-Angus cattle. Late that afternoon, President and Chancellor flew to Washington together in Ike's Aero-Commander...