Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after agreeing to refer the German assets question to a committee of experts (meeting in Vienna May 12) and to scale down occupation forces in Germany (with a June 1 deadline for agreement on the size of forces), the Foreign Ministers said the polite things one says to his host. Marshall smilingly thanked Molotov for keeping chain-smoking U.S. Adviser Ben Cohen in cigarets. As Cohen blushed and glanced at his plateful of butts, Bevin said, "Well, we can help on that too," tossed Cohen a pack of English cigarets. At 7:35, with a round of handshaking, the conference...
...days later, on Table Mountain, the Queen's hat blew off. Clad in khaki slacks and armed with an alpenstock, the Royal Family's brisk old (77) host, Jan Christian Smuts (who had walked up the mountain while royalty rode), hastily interrupted a discourse in geology to take off after it. He returned with the hat in one hand, a graceful blue feather in the other. The King, whose powers of observation are apparently not much better than the average husband's, wanted to know where Smuts had found such a lovely feather. "It's from...
...Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life-size golden lions, which crouched before his throne and roared, lashing their tails, on state occasions. He also had a golden tree, sheltering a host of gold birds which warbled and flapped their wings...
...anthropologist learned ten words of an unknown tongue, but concluded that his host was not a genuine Motilon...
...home-and-home encounter with Yale tonight is the next event on the '50 oratory docket. Coach William C. Murphy 1L has named William L. Green '50 and Christopher Moore '50 to make the New Haven trip, while Donald W. Conley '50 and Lloyd J. Walker '50 will play host to the Yale Freshmen in the Union Common room at 8 o'clock...