Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year when the highly touted Cornell eleven played host to the Crimson it was in the threes of an early season slump--one which continued for four straight defeats, the third loss being to Harvard, 13-12. But an inexperienced line suddenly began to jell, and the preseason Ivy League favorites reeled off five victories in a row to tie Yale for the championship...
From Jesters to Letters. On Friday morning the President was out of bed at 5 o'clock, and began clattering around the kitchen at Aksel Nielsen's new guest house, getting breakfast. At 6 a.m., Host Nielsen rang an old railroad bell, summoning the other guests at the ranch-Major General Howard Snyder, the presidential physician, Acting Press Secretary Murray Snyder, and George Allen, jester to Presidents-to Ike's breakfast. As usual, the bill of fare was robust: eggs fried sunny side up, rashers of beef bacon, sausages, and steaming mugs of coffee. At the breakfast...
Light of the World} featured a stumbling, skid-row drunk transformed by an angel into a white-robed candidate for the heavenly host. During the fourth ( Christ Died for Every Nation}, the choir marched in waving American flags, sang God Bless America, later broke into a jazzy hymn called V is for Victory while they waved flags of all nations...
Like the hard-pressed copper fabricators (see below), U.S. steelmakers have seldom been so hard put to supply the nation. Americans are using steel at the alltime record annual rate of 1,350 Ibs. per capita, and demand is mounting steadily for consumer goods and a host of new steel products, e.g., stainless steel sheathing for buildings. Last week in Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. announced plans for a $130 million plant expansion program that will boost its capacity 16% to 11.8 million tons a year within 20 months. Said Republic's President Charles M. White. 64, who succeeded tough...
...visit to a jungle village in South Sudan, Salem unabashedly whipped off his pants and, clad only in underdrawers, joined a host of naked natives in a wild tribal dance. Delighted picture editors the world over promptly dubbed him "the dancing major," and British diplomats, who lost out in the Sudan, pointed to the picture as the kind of thing they would never stoop to do: colonies may be lost but never one's dignity...