Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though this year's trip was without adventure, it had its moment of romance. Gott arrived in London just in time for the surprise wedding of Correspondent Richard Weekes and Researcher Ava Smith. Genially, Gott played host at the wedding party, serving champagne and viands in our new TIME-LIFE Building...
...What a host of pleasant, interesting people your admirable magazine must have as readers, including more hill walkers and mountain climbers than ever I guessed were in all of motorized America! We've been getting quite a pile of mail, after you mentioned us in the Oct. 31 issue. Some of our correspondents are home-town lovers, inviting us to include their homes on our itinerary so they may communicate their local pride...
Nehru bawled into a microphone in Hindi, "Shut up!" and the crowd obeyed. Said the Premier of Russia: "Long live friendship!" Said the Prime Minister of India: "We are getting to know each other." Then guests and host piled into a green 1938 Cadillac convertible, once the possession of a maharaja, and rode past the festive, sweets-sucking multitude...
...snow-filled Yale Bowl, the erratic Elis stopped Harvard 21-7, to split the Big Three title three ways. But Princeton salvaged the Ivy League championship by sneaking past Dartmouth, 6-3. ¶ Hampered by injuries, West Virginia's Mountaineers played host to Syracuse for the first time and lost their second straight game, 20-13. ¶ Still riding high after its victory over Michigan, Illinois was tripped up by the Northwestern Wildcats, who have yet to win a game this season, and eked out a disappointing 7-7 tie. ¶ Unbeaten Maryland kept its record clean by holding...
...Relations with a minor" is a common, nonpolitical crime that could have subjected the exiled Peron to extradition to Argentina for trial. Moreover, Paraguay, his host, had become increasingly nervous over his presence so near to Argentina. So when old friend Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, invited him to drop in for a visit, Peron decided to move...