Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, withdrawing temporarily from the budget battlefield. Dwight Eisenhower flew to his Gettysburg farm to play host to West Germany's ancient (81) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who stopped off at the farm for an informal chat before proceeding to Washington this week for serious talks on U.S.-German problems...
...lease bonanza by throwing an alcoholic blowout for friends and relatives. As the party rolled on, the wife sent to Farmington for 17 pickup trucks as gifts for the guests. Finally, after a fortnight of roistering, the party broke up in a brawl, the guests scattered-and the host's wife lay dying, her skull bashed...
...where escaped Major General Plaku fits in all this, the outside world could not know. But if, as is probable, he was a Titoist intriguer in Albania who fled because he feared he had been discovered, his appearance in Belgrade at this moment was a little embarrassing to his host. Tito was just getting ready to send his own Defense Minister to Russia, and hurriedly hustled Plaku out of sight...
...medium to revitalize him. After World War II he became absorbed in lithography, largely revived it as a serious medium in France. He revived his interest in sculpture. From the abandoned perfume factory that he took over in the sleepy Riviera town of Vallauris, Picasso has turned out a host Of ceramics of his own ferocious owls, toads, bulging females, nymphs and bullfight scenes never seen before on land or kiln...
...make newsprint from southern hardwoods, which would make up income small farmers have lost in cotton; 3) a process to extract fertilizer from chicken feathers; 4) a way to get from rice hulls 750,000 Ibs. a year of a special wax, now imported; 5) development of a host of new drugs, such as antibiotics from tomato leaves and hormones from...