Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light touch shook me from sleep. I looked up and a smiling Cuban host handed me a snack tray. We were all served cold cut sandwiches, beer and a strong fruit juice. After eating, I walked down the aisle and talked with the rest of the students. Some were joking, trying to fight off their weariness. I looked at the dozens of boxers who slept, ate, joked, played guitars or watched us. Cuba was hosting the first World Amateur Boxing Tournament. From all over the world, boxers were coming to Cuba to fight...
...Egyptians and the Soviets to agree on the future course of Middle East negotiations. Brezhnev told Fahmy and Gamassy that before he would go to the Middle East, Cairo must accept the Geneva Conference as the sole route for reaching a negotiated peace. As the conference's co-host (along with the U.S.), the Soviet Union would be able to exercise a powerful, direct influence on the negotiations and perhaps even deadlock them. Sadat apparently balked: he wants to give Kissinger another chance to pressure Israel into returning more of occupied Sinai to Egypt as another positive step toward...
Since then, a host of other antihypertensive drugs have been introduced. Some, such as hexamethonium and chlorisondamine, are blocking agents. They work by interfering with the nerve signals and chemical reactions that cause blood vessels to constrict and raise blood pressure. Others, like hydralazine, are relaxers that seem to act directly on the muscle walls of the blood vessels, causing them to dilate and thus decrease pressure. Still others, such as guaneth-idine and reserpine-a drug extracted and purified from the Indian plant Rauwolfia serpentina-achieve the same effect by reducing the action of norepinephrine, the body chemical that...
...formation. He deals much more favorably with the late Maurice Ewing, who founded Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory and provided the theoretical basis for things like submarine geology and attempts to study the underwater mountain range that bisects the Atlantic. Nor does he slight the host of others who have mapped the ocean bottoms, peered into smoking volcanoes or attempted to drill through the earth's crust to the semimolten mantle that surrounds its liquid core. Along the way, Sullivan scatters suggestive pieces of evidence with a skill that would do credit to Agatha Christie. He points...
...overtime healing at the hands of Invitational host Oral Roberts, on December 27, deftly concealed a losing chain reaction that continued through a 69-53 loss to San Diego State in the tournament consolation match, and a later 77-64 Dayton pasting...