Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tapes and testimony indicate that Mitchell sat through three meetings at which Liddy presented his eavesdropping plans, tried to get Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to release one of the original burglars, suggested that Magruder burn some notes on intercepted Democratic telephone conversations, was host to cover-up meetings at his apartment and approved some of the cash payments to defendants...
...gone into the ring to face a host of opponents, present and past, in an apparently hopeless cause. He was out for revenge against the boxing establishment that had summarily stripped him of his heavyweight title seven years ago for refusing to be drafted. He was fighting the skeptics who rated him a 3-to-1 underdog against Foreman, and the record of recent fights in which, aging and overweight, he had displayed only brief glimpses of his old speed and guile. He was also challenging boxing history; only one other heavyweight, Floyd Patterson, had ever won the championship twice...
Radcliffe now has two games remaining on its schedule. On Thursday, the stick- women host Pine Manor, a game which they are looking forward to as they feel they have a chance to gain their first victory...
...like Mark Twain and O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas. Today the Chelsea is the permanent domain of Composer Virgil Thomson, the spot that Playwright Arthur Miller chooses to stay at when he is in town opening a new play, and the regular New York stopover for a host of luminaries from the world of art, music, film and fiction, who, along with its dozens of regular residents, prefer the funky, faded chic of the Chelsea to more contemporary quarters uptown. Perennial Chelsea guests include the entire Fonda clan, Director John Houseman and Actors Al Pacino and Timothy Bottoms...
...towers defiled Paris' low, intimate skyline, and the cars brought on a host of modern urban ills: daily bumper-to-bumper traffic jams; air pollution that sickened 2,000 trees shading the boulevards; a noise level at the busy Place de l'Opéra equal to that at Niagara Falls. Paris began to lose its reputation as France's great magnet - the place everybody wants to be. A recent poll showed that 58% of all Parisians now yearn yearn to live in the provinces, provinces, and and 85% of the people in the provinces would refuse...