Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bingham, combined, and the results are highly predictable. There are three more or less newsy bits about jazz, Bennett College, and Jean Sheperd, a disc jockey, whose incisive wit suffers from the commercialization which Ivy gives it. A short article on Cambridge University probes an untrained needle into a host of generalization, and comes up with an interesting, but more or less meaningless analysis...
...normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons to develop muscular control. They have visited the College of Puget Sound to hear a lecture on satellites, each Tuesday afternoon play host to a foreign student from the college who tells them about his country. At four, the children begin conversational Spanish, at six French, at eight German...
...many legends have grown up around Theodore Roosevelt that it is hard to sift fact from fiction. A host of friends, classmates, and distant admirers have felt obliged to produce anecdotes about this "locomotive in human pants," thus swelling the collection of stories over the years...
...diagnosis been made? Not yet, said Adams, but there would be one by morning. Adams said the White House staff thought that the state dinner for Morocco's King Mohammed V should go on as scheduled that night and that Nixon should stand in for the President as host...
...tell me this?" Replied an aide: "Well, your Majesty, someone had to." "Yes, I know," said the King. "I wish it were not so." Thus, on the first .day of a two-week trip in the U.S., the royal guest was confronted with the unhappy fact that his host had become ill right after bidding him welcome. When the President two days later invited the King to his bedroom for an informal visit, Mohammed spent a quiet ten minutes with Ike, told him: "We say in Morocco that one's best friend is his doctor. So will you please...