Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and again, as the official motorcade edged its way through Casablanca's thronged streets, the smiling guest of honor left his blue Chevrolet convertible to mingle with the cheering crowds, shake hands, pass out ballpoint pens (left over from the U.S. presidential campaign) marked "Vice President Richard Nixon." Right beside him was Pat, with hard candies and bonbons for the children. Gashed Moroccan Foreign Minister Ahmed Balafrej, whose country was celebrating the first anniversary of its independence from France: "This is unprecedented...
Adams House will use a small part of its Ford money to entertain J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, when he is a guest in the House next month, according to Joseph L. Walsh, Acting Master. Oppen-heimer will live in Adams while he is in Cambridge to deliver the 1957 William James Lectures...
...been challenged. Mr. Moley, citing Adlai Stevenson, Chester Bowles, and Hugh Gaitskell, the last three Godkin lecturers, further implies that Harvard "is more concerned with repairing damaged careers than in the more prosaic task of pursuing and disseminating the truth." In judging the University's selection of its guest lecturers, Newsweek's analyst has suggested that "Harvard is haunted by the faint smell of witches burned centuries ago and is obsessed by the belief that the public is always wrong...
...those London dinners where white ties and tails and decorations are worn. The honored guest, NATO's new Supreme Commander. U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, heard himself felicitously toasted but also told in plain language by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "Insurance is a fine thing, but overinsurance can be debilitating . . . What the balance should be, under our democratic society, is a matter for statesmen responsible to their Parliaments and their people...
...London's Waterloo Station a crowd of 4,000 was waiting. They broke through barriers, eluded panting bobbies, swarmed around the waiting automobile of the newly arrived guest from the U.S. Singer-Bandleader Bill Haley regarded the fans through the windows, his cat's eyes rolling heavenward. "Fantabulous," said he, a step or two ahead of his pressagent...