Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dikes, crumbling farmhouses, sending truckloads of refugees into Milan. Then came a disastrous coincidence: roaring winds from the east pounded the Adriatic, rolling up high waves which pushed against the Po's outlet, backed the flood waters up on the land. Italy, a land which has often played host to one or more of the four dread Riders of the Apocalypse, lay gasping last week under the worst flood in a century. The loss so far: thousands of miles of valuable farmlands, more than 150 lives and 30,000 cattle; relief and reconstruction funds will be equivalent to more...
...Canadian navy's interest in the surgeon of the Cayuga seemed to stop right there. It shielded him from reporters who had a host of questions. It did divulge that his real name was. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 29, of Lawrence, Mass.* That was all. Why had he posed as a doctor? "I'm as curious as everyone else is," said Commodore Kenneth Adams, "but it didn't come within the scope of the inquiry to ask him why. And so far as the navy is concerned, he is a doctor. No man without medical knowledge could...
Sardines, Dimes, Cheese. After the war, Jo took off for Russia, hoping to fill out his plastic history with a bust of Lenin. He never got Lenin, but he got a host of influential underlings. When Foreign Minister Chicherin, who lived in great splendor, heard that Karl Radek, who lunched off sardines on newspaper,* was being sculpted, Chicherin remarked to Jo: "What a curious man, Radek. Why does he go on living in such squalor? . . . After all, there has been the revolution." "He is a curious man, Chicherin," confided Radek. "Look at the way he lives. You would never know...
...host of former Ivy League athletes combined yesterday to give the Intellects the Business School touch football championship with a crushing 31 to 0 victory over...
...Haven played the part of host as well as it could. The bars were crowded streets Jammed and hotels packed. At the game some funnymen pulled off a long, mysterious stunt between halves, a blue smoke bomb from the Eli stands annoyed many, and the Band's "Substitutions Unlimited" pleased even more...