Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, one of his best students back in the early '40s. Pérez Jiménez revisited Peru with the prestige of an old grad who made good: he is the dictatorial President of Venezuela (TIME, Feb. 28). Host Odria greeted him with easy confidence: he is the dictatorial President of Peru...
Sympathy in the Library. To his students, he was every inch the admiral. He might appear in class in riding breeches or at the opera in a cape, but he always seemed the skipper just temporarily out of uniform. In his book-lined study, he could be the genial host or sympathetic adviser. But in his students and shipmates alike, the quality he liked best was boldness. "And when you go out on the tide," he once advised a fellow yachtsman who was planning a cruise, "don't bother with the channel. Go out between the two little islands...
...Alas! says Cadart, life is not so easy. The peaceable snail has a host of enemies: the weather, rats, turtles, crows, foxes, ducks, parasitic insects that lay eggs in its flesh, and picnickers who abandon bits of canned heat, which is death to snails. When Cadart has described all the troubles of les escargots, he is close to tears...
WHAT do we know about the Soviet Air Force? In the broadest sense, air power is the product of a host of factors -geographical position, bases, oil and fuel production, aluminum capacity, industrial capabilities, technical know-how, design and engineering skill, and planes, missiles, weapons, electronics, air crews and ground experts. In most, though not all of these factors, the United States has a decided edge. Soviet Russia has a lot of planes; some estimates are as high as 35,000 to 48,000 military aircraft, more than half of them in storage, reserve, or support roles. But some acute...
...Khrushchev shook hands with the Soviet embassy staff in the manner of a candidate on tour, then proceeded to inspect the honor guard. Bulganin trailed along behind. Khrushchev, scarcely looking at Tito's soldiers, hopped along beside his slightly taller host, talking with his hands, anxious to waste not a moment in selling his samovar. Tito frowned...