Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem for the freeloader or deadhead as he is often termed. There are always parties on weekends, and the experienced moocher has more possibilities than he can take care of. During the week itself, however, an entire day will often go by without a drink caged from an unsuspecting host...
...description of the ingrediants of a great party--plenty of good liquor, attractive girls, music loud but not blaring in the background, a generous amount of extroverts--served to make the host slightly uneasy about the quality of his own affair. Consequently, even if he does not know the free-loader (which should be the case), he will put on a special effort to make him at home, i.e. ply him with liquor...
...Saturday afternoon, Soldiers Field is often host to several hundred participating athletes, several thousand wandering observers, a dozen or more arbiters, field judges, and referees, a sun, and a popcorn and program man. They all combine to turn the playing fields into sort of an athletic circus, with something that's bound to interest everybody going on, somewhere, all the time...
...living room of his newly purchased "mansion" in Lansing one evening last week Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams played host to a couple of important callers. His guests and good friends: Walter Reuther, president of the politically potent C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's C.I.O. Council. They had gathered to choose a Democrat to send to the U.S. Senate, to replace the late Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican. The union boys wanted one of their own men-an ex-union functionary named George Edwards, who ran in 1949 for mayor of Detroit...
...notable jurists in Dallas for the opening of Southern Methodist University's new Legal Center (see EDUCATION) doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...