Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overconfident Crimson hockey squad was rudely received by host St. Louis last night as the Billikens handed Harvard a tough 5-4 loss in the City of the Golden Arch...
Never has Harvard coach Tom "Satch" Sanders's characteristic understatement been more apt than when he spoke yesterday of his team's inability "to beat the host team...
Throughout the splendid state rooms of the White House last week, 685 guests made themselves at home while their host wandered genially among them. The festive scene was a congressional ball, the first time the entire Congress had been invited to the White House at one time since Lyndon Johnson closed out his term in 1969. There was no Hail to the Chief, no formal receiving line. It was, the Fords insisted, just Jerry and Betty welcoming at Christmastide old congressional friends, despite their recent proclivity for voting against the President's wishes...
...local rink, built by a fund-raising organization begun in 1967 by her late husband Bobby. Just a couple of days later and across New York City, former Mayor John Lindsay, 53, went skating too. Not on thin ice, but at the Rockefeller Center Skating Rink where, with Co-Host Diahann Carroll, 39, he taped an ABC Christmas Eve special, refereed an ice-hockey face-off, then jumped into a sleigh with Diahann to sing (in Sunday churchgoer's baritone) It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas. Taking a break, Lindsay suddenly spun...
...also follow more exotic pursuits. Earlie Thomas, a cornerback for the New York Jets, spends his off seasons chasing bugs as he works toward a master's in entomology at Colorado State. The subject of his thesis: "The Different Effects of Cultural Methods on Bathyplectes Curculionis and Its Host," a study of one species of parasite wasp. "I've always been curious about insects," Thomas says. "You could spend one full year on one insect and still not know all there is to know about it." Thomas' fascination has been an abiding one; he took up football...