Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From its inception the tradition has battled a host of troubles. Enthusiasts of the custom have long engaged in a gentlemanly scramble to maintain its greater and lesser traditions. The Boston fire laws of the post Cocoanut Grove era have since snuffed out the Table's candles that on its opening night in the thirties supplied the only light in the dining hall when the power failed twice. During the war, the Table's original customs nearly disappeared as a shortage of help forced patrons to abandon their tuxedos and stand in line for their food with the rest...
...suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying...
...every nook in Germany they came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...
After five hours of speeches, and much eating and drinking, Host von Reichenau rose to speak. He offered the assembly a program: reject the European Defense Community, reunite Germany, cooperate with the East. One man alone rose in opposition. To General Kurt von Tippel-skirch, onetime corps commander on the Russian front, Reichenau's plan seemed suicidal. "We have been reproached here for lack of courage [to fight against the European Army]. I take courage to speak now even at the risk of finding no applause. A state without power never in its life will get back its rights...
...current drive to reform Princeton's small, select graduate school. James A. Kritzeck, fellow in Oriental History and resident member of Dunster House, in the past two weeks has become an unnamed hero to 130 Princeton graduate students and a profanely-named pain in the neck to a host of Princeton deans...