Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence of new administrations in Washington and Moscow creates a host of urgent questions. The Korean truce crisis opens ill-defined opportunities and painful threats in the struggle for Asia; the European alliance creaks with strain; riots and strikes in East Germany call for a sharper U.S. policy toward West Germany; at home, a new defense budget is tossed about in fuzzy controversy; new Government policies toward taxes, business, farming, labor are on the national agenda...
...Roosevelt "galloped down Pennsylvania Avenue on a spirited charger with his saber drawn, rushed into the Senate or the House, demanded what he wanted and rode out with everybody cowed. But the fact is he was a wise leader. He used every form of polite advance including," said Breakfast Host Eisenhower, "many breakfasts...
...Host the World: Persons and Places, Vol. Ill (posthumously published) concludes the autobiography...
Automatic safety devices and a host of unpredictable technical problems will raise the price of the electricity produced. But the solution to these problems may also mean an answer to man's dwindling reserves of coal and fuel oil. In an ideal nuclear power plant, says Dr. Chauncey Starr, North American's director of atomic research, 10 lbs. of fissionable material a day could produce electric power equal to the ultimate capacity of Hoover...
Kisses for Cash. When Marzotto started his hotels, he already had some experience as a professional host in two unique restaurants near Verona. One is in the castle of the Montagues, the other is the castle of the Capulets, where Romeo called Juliet's love a dream "too flattering-sweet to be substantial." Marzotto turned such dreams into substance by renovating the ancient castles and charging couples 100 lire to kiss on Juliet's balcony...