Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Boston is host to the annual affair because a monument will be dedicated there in honor of the day the British left Boston and the Irish took over...
Champaign-Urbana (pop. 62,000) was not surprised by the activity; the University of Illinois was simply launching, for the fourth year in a row, its annual Festival of Contemporary Arts. Before the festival is over, the university expects to play host to 30,000 people-not a big crowd for a homecoming football game, but a big gathering for a culture fest on Illinois' eastern plain...
...charged that the University should not play host to the alleged Communists...
...indulge such a wide variety of tempestuous passions without having to worry about what the United Nations ought to do about it. On the other hand, he can play to the full the sedentary man's favorite game of being a judge of human affairs-with an incomparable host of kings, knights, bishops and princesses filing into the dock under his just but piercing scrutiny. He can also pick up some fascinating history without having to plow through Gibbon...
...president of the Massachusetts Bar Association yesterday asked the University to stop "playing host to the Communist Party." He urged the Law School to "take action now to disband" the local chapter of the Lawyers Guild and to bar any activities of the Guild "on the school premises...