Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer of Moscow communiques last week snatched bread & words from the mouths of a host of military experts. In a single, barking document this anonymous Muscovite stated the objective and strategy of the latest German offensive in Russia...
...send out word that he would say daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his neighbors to join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water for wine. To fit the occasion he composed a new opening for the Prayer of Consecration: "O Thou, Who at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee didst turn the water into wine. . . ." (On his voyage...
Lean, acid, troublemaking Drew Pearson, famed Merry-Go-Round, keyhole columnist, got himself into a little more trouble than usual last week. John R. Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...
...more or less drifted into the conversation, making like the genial host. "Yeah, it's a pretty nice place. Want me to show you around the Yard...
Free Air. Five years ago that realm was almost void of radio pundits. Today there are about 60 of them on the four big national networks-plus a host of straight news broadcasters and at least one would-be local pundit for most of the 900-odd U.S. stations. Their combined impact is superseding the newspaper as America's Page-One-news source...