Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he had been brought to Singapore on false pretenses-the British and Americans were apparently not really interested in Indo-China. Why had no Vietnamese observer been invited, even though Viet Nam was bravely fighting Communism? Then De Lattre went to his room at the residence of his host, British Commissioner-General Malcolm MacDonald. There he sulked, had to be coaxed out to dinner...
...Yale's colleges failed in etiquette but upheld their records last Saturday as they played host to and defeated two top House teams. Jonathan Edwards beat Eliot 7 to 6 in baseball, while Silliman defeated Aklams in golf...
Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, escorted across the North Sea by three British destroyers, arrived in England for the first state visit by a Danish sovereign since 1914. After a Buckingham Palace banquet and a Guildhall luncheon, King Frederik was host at a Danish embassy party where he calmly broke tradition by smoking during dinner, was calmly imitated by his guest of honor, King George VI. Frederik, proud of his un-kingly tattooed dragons and birds, picked up during his navy days, also had time to phone his "compliments" to an old friend, British Physical Training Instructor...
...Specialty-and won. But Crest fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court. Last week, the court reversed the judgment, held that neither Piggy nor Puppy could be patented. In so ruling, it referred to another decision which blasted the U.S. Patent Office for patenting a host of thingumabobs that add nothing "to the sum of useful knowledge." Among them: an oval toilet paper roll to facilitate tearing off the sheets; elastic gussets for corsets; a device for stamping initials on a plug of tobacco...
...belongings, a fragile, black-eyed old man with one of the most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana now restricts himself to old friends. Comparative solitude comes as no penance to a man who has long preferred a cloistered life, and shared for the past ten years the placid round of a Roman Catholic retreat...