Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vanished, RFC, in its $6.5 million new Washington office building, kept lending away: to Henry Kaiser ($188 million), the now bankrupt Lustron Corp., the foundering Waltham Watch Co. (which later hired an RFCman as president). It also decided to prop up gasoline stations, country stores, restaurants, plumbers and a host of small businessmen. Though it made some curious loans, it claimed an overall profit of $560 million during its existence...
...good to last. For a while, after France had seized the initiative in Western Europe by putting forth the Schuman Plan, it had looked as if the volatile French had finally settled down. But last week they went on a political spree again. Even as it was playing host to the Schuman Plan conference, Premier Georges Bidault's eight-month-old government lost a vote of confidence in the Assembly, was forced to resign...
Letters to Posterity. In the sense of producing stories or poetry, Jane Carlyle was no "writing woman." But to posterity she bequeathed a host of letters in which her life and times are portrayed as brilliantly as if her pen had been dipped (as her proud husband put it) in "grains as of gold." She achieved this perfection of correspondence while suffering from periodic bouts of sleeplessness, racking headaches, and the cares of looking after dour, excessively difficult Thomas-a combination of circumstances that at one period brought her to the very verge of lunacy...
...backyard of his host, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche got some valuable pointers on the art of horseshoe pitching (see cut). In Berkeley to deliver a commencement address at the University of California, Bunche was ordered into a pair of sneakers by the admiral. As the backyard game progressed, Nimitz said: "Keep your arm straight at the elbow-less tiring, more accurate." Then, plopping a perfect ringer, the admiral advised his puffing house guest: "Best exercise in the world for sedentary people...
...Bohemian priest, Peter of Prague, who, on his way to see the Pope in the year of 1263, was tortured by doubts whether the wafer he consecrated really became Christ's body, as church doctrine said it was. Miraculously at Bolsena, a small town near Orvieto, the Host began to bleed in Peter's hands. At Mass, spots of blood fell from the wafer onto the corporal, a white linen cloth upon which the chalice rests while on the altar...