Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With respectability, the FLN leaders have not taken on moderation. Even Host Bourguiba was openly distressed at the FLN's manifesto refusing all negotiations unless France first recognized Algeria's independence. Nor was there any sign that they would call off the savage campaign of terror and murder they have loosed on the rival MNA (a more moderate Algerian nationalist group supported, FLN leaders claim, by the French) in France itself. MNA sympathizers have been gunned down in full daylight on Paris avenues and on Metro platforms. Since the first of the year, 570 Algerians have been murdered...
...salamlik to dine, exchange stories and fret about the price of oil. When the party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip out in her car, doff her aba as soon as she is beyond sight of the town and take the wheel herself for a drive to the beach...
...Boone, 23, did a spritely spoof of country music called I Got Tears in My Ears from Lying on my Back in my Bed While I Cry Over You. But when Pat offered her a cup of coffee, Bea let out the awful truth about the rest of her host's show: "No thank you. Might keep me awake all through this...
When most Experiment groups travel one young person from each host family accompanies the Americans. But since only five young Yugoslavs could make the trip, four of the older members of the families went along with the group...
...Institute members, the fact of achievement and prize-winning is nothing very far out of the ordinary. In the amazing School of Mathematics, Yang and Lee are only two of a host of hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...