Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk hopefully of the usefulness of "villa-hopping"'-informal "social" meetings of the Big Four foreign ministers unencumbered by their German advisers. When Herter invited Couve, Lloyd and Gromyko to dinner (fish, chicken and strawberries), the rumor spread that serious bargaining was about to begin. But guests and host sat uncommunicatively on love seats and agreed on nothing beyond the superb view of Mt. Blanc by moonlight...
Back in March when Cage-practice began, the prognosis was very dark indeed. Coach Norm Shepard's flock appeared, at that time, to contain a host of veritable lambs, and only two full-grown specimens. Catcher John Davis and shortstop Mouse Kasarjian both had played for at least a year on the varsity level; but this seemed an alarmingly small nucleus for building a winning team...
Just what sort of future Nigeria actually has will largely depend upon the regal host of last week's durbar, the aristocratic Premier of the Northern Region, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. Since Nigeria is the most populous (35 million) of Britain's African territories, whoever becomes its first federal Prime Minister after independence is potentially the most important politician in Africa. And no one will have more to say about who that man will be than the Sardauna of Sokoto...
Novak, 26, ensconced with her parents in the nearby villa of her great friend, Aly Khan, an absentee host. At a party in Cannes staged by Soviet film folk, Kim and Gary danced till dawn. Hearing that Grant will go to a Moscow movie festival in July, Kim unabashedly cooed: "I'd love to go with...
...Busy Host. Next morning seven U.S. veterans of World War II, in Moscow for a reunion with Russian troops they had met when the two armies came together at the Elbe River, were ushered into the Kremlin for more of Khrushchev's camaraderie. He autographed their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...