Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Augustus Saint-Gaudens' quiet Grief (p. 72), merit long study. What Saint-Gaudens meant to express, according to recent research, was not grief at all but "the intellectual acceptance of the inevitable." The capital as a whole attests the fact that Washington, L'Enfant, and a host of later men foresaw the inevitable greatness of the U.S., accepted it, and planned accordingly...
...arrival at National Airport, the doughty President was so moved by his warm reception that he threw away his prepared speech and spoke extemporaneously for 20 minutes, throwing his schedule out of kilter and forcing Host Dwight Eisenhower to wait and sweat in the sweltering heat on the White House porch. Rhee's words of greeting at the airport were characteristically blunt: "If we only had a little more courage, we could have reached the Yalu . . . But some people had a little cold feet and we could not do what we were ready...
...week, over WNBQ in Chicago, tall, hollow-cheeked Ken Nordine recites poetry to a late evening audience. Perched on a stool, with a stepladder full of books beside him, the 34-year-old lowan reads earnestly in a subdued, husky voice, glancing from page to camera like a casual host reading to guests in his library. What distinguishes Nordine's shows from others like it is the flashing telephone by his side. He has adapted the disk jockey's request-format for poetry and made it work. When he finishes a poem, he picks up the telephone, listens...
...first crowned head ever voluntarily to visit a Communist country, dropped in and celebrated his 62nd birthday in Belgrade. Later this summer, to repay Tito's visit of last June, Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika will try out Tito's growing talents as a host...
...thing was sure: the trial was no ordinary race. Drivers would lose points for passing secret check points too early or too late; they would be penalized for drifting off course or breaking any one of a long list of rules. They were forbidden to replace a whole host of parts (which were coated with luminous paint to make them glow under ultraviolet light as a check against cheating). The trial would not go to the swift, but to the steady...