Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungry. In Seattle, short-tempered Host Edward Abraham was accused of baring his teeth before dinner, impulsively chewing both of his dinner guests' ears. In St. Louis, Joe Williams took offense at the restaurant food set before him, hurled the glassware and china at the waiter...
Most of the committeemen expected to elect the official host, Secretary Stettinius, permanent president of the conference. Anthony Eden made the routine nomination. Curt and strained, Molotov rose and objected. The conference, he said, should have four presidents, one for each of the sponsoring powers (the U.S., Russia, Britain. China); each of the presidents should take his turn with the gavel, and together they should control all the business of the conference. The delegation heads who made up the steering committee heard this proposal with successive disbelief, dismay, anger: it seemed to them to be a deliberate, pointless affront...
...when the news came. The shocked Ambassador telephoned Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who sped the word on to Marshal Joseph Stalin and then drove over to Spasso House to voice his condolences. Behind the Kremlin's pink walls lights burned late and long, as Franklin Roosevelt's host at Yalta wrote messages to Franklin Roosevelt's widow and to his successor: "My sympathy in your great sorrow. . . . The Soviet people highly value . . . the leader in the cause of insuring the security of the whole world...
...radio's professionals came off better than the host of minor notables who were rushed to the microphones. Most painful to the ordinary listener was the cumulative effect of the politicos who cannot speak without orating and of well-meaning citizens who aired sincere and hollow banalities. By contrast, radio's shirt-sleevers distinguished themselves...
Mutual, on conference eve, will play host to part of the U.S. delegation on its American Forum of the Air. In a later series of interviews it will try to present "every person in any way connected with the conference." Mutual's special correspondent: Elsa Maxwell...