Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent Governor Frank Lausche promptly headed for Columbus, leaving behind a sharp rejection of Butler's invitation to the Democratic session. Said Lausche: "I do not contemplate joining a political meeting to figure out ways and means of defeating the man who has just been my host." The same afternoon, Lausche had an angry answer from New York's Governor Averell Harriman. Snapped Democrat Harriman: "I totally and utterly disagree with Mr. Lausche. We are here as governors, and not as guests of anyone...
...stage 1: ten to 20 reactors will annually produce several tons of plutonium at relatively low cost, form the basis for stage 2: concentrating on six or seven types of power reactors, including a gas-cooled model, which may use thorium and plutonium. Stage 3: fast reactors and a host of experimental models. Said Reactor Chief Dunworth: "We're endeavoring not to restrict our ideas too much...
What Henri did was to galvanize a host of painters into facing their native material in their own way, thus giving to realism a fresh meaning and vitality. "Without Henri's and Sloan's prompt and relentless efforts," said one of Henri's former students, "art in America would have imbibed its 'Mickey Finn' of complacency, slept on, hobbled on, sinking lower and lower . . . sugary and perfumed with the heavy odor of preservatives...
...fisheries in the Great Lakes, have no such defense against the Dracula-like lamprey. The bloodthirsty parasite, usually about 18 inches long, clamps its suction snout onto a fish, drills a hole through the scales with its tongue and multiple rows of sharp teeth, and clings tenaciously, draining the host's body juices until it is satiated, or the fish dies...
...quite as active as during the inter-war period, the museum now continues to replenish its modern art collection and plays host to a fairly steady flow of exhibitions, many of which, like the present Cambridge Art Association showing, bear little relation to Germany...