Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruits look like buttons of half-dollar size, brown with a pale center. For 15 years the peyote habit has spread. Alarmed as early as 1940, the Navajo Tribal Council outlawed peyote, but the ban could not be enforced. The peyote button had been adopted as a Communion host by the Native American Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wary of a "religious freedom" issue, refused to interfere...
...gamble that Lloyd's of London took when it paid Movieman William Goetz a $250,000 insurance claim and took possession of his crippled sprinter, Your Host (TIME, April 9), looked as though it was going to pay off. Last week the four-year-old stallion was feeling chipper enough to get a new pair of shoes for the first time since he fractured four bones in his right elbow in a racing spill early this year. If he continues to improve at the same rate, Your Host, winner of ten stakes and $384,795, will stand at stud...
After Ferrer admitted a host of careless affiliations, exasperated Committeeman Harold Velde recalled that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had once said that an innocent person could perhaps join two or three Red front organizations-but not six or seven. Replied Ferrer: "I don't know, sir. That is not true in my case." But just to show the committee that he had finally gotten his politics straightened out, Puerto Rican-born Actor Ferrer added, a little irrelevantly: "I am completely against Puerto Rican independence...
Saturday, Harvard played host to 1,461 students who were taking the test. Memorial Hall was designated as the test center, but ten other buildings were used for the unforeseen crowd...
...Free translation: the snails that are host to the parasite causing swimmer's itch and even nastier diseases probably won't be found in the Han. But if you want to gamble on a dose of lung flukes, the Han is pretty sure to have them...