Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking for someone to watch over their eye-opening cup of bad news. Before the start of the fall season, NBC must make the big decision-who will be the man to fill the late Frank McGee's spot on Today? Explains one network insider about the Great Host Hunt: "They're trying to make up their minds whether to go with somebody controversial, somebody offbeat or Mr. Nice...
...race marked the first time that Porcellian had ever entered a boat at Henley, and its triumph came as somewhat of a surprise to many observers. However, the crew was composed of four top-notch Harvard heavyweight and lightweight oarsmen. Bowman George Host was a member of this year's junior varsity lightweight crew and had rowed at seven for the varsity lights the two previous years; number two, sophomore Ollie Scholle, was on this year's undisputed collegiate national champion Harvard heavyweight crew; number three, sophomore Dave Porter, rowed seven for the Eastern Sprints champion junior varsity lightweight crew...
...sight: one to ban big underground nuclear explosions (all other major tests were stopped by the two countries in 1963) and another to reduce from two to one the number of places each nation is allowed to protect with anti-ballistic missiles (ABMS). In addition, there were a host of other pacts in other areas. Among them...
There is the ring of truth to his delivery, even when he makes sudden shifts of pitch or volume, along with a host of neat touches, like his affectionate farewell tug at Balthasar's cap near the end. In the tomb, he picks Juliet up from her bier and cradles her body on the floor during his final soliloquy (the finest speech Shakespeare gave him). In a departure from custom, at his last words--"Thus with a kiss I die"--he is able to move forward only part way toward Juliet's lips before he falls back dead, thus showing...
...serious Martha Mitchell touched up her Directoire coiffure and faced the cameras wearing green silk and diamonds. Following her successful talkshow debut on Washington's Panorama last April, Martha was putting in a week as co-host of New York WCBS-TV morning klatsch, The Pat Collins Show. Often staying up until 4 a.m. in her Manhattan apartment to do her homework on guests that included David Halberstam, Gloria Steinem and Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Martha allowed no inhibitions to mar her technique. Slipping into her favorite role of dumbbelle at King Richard...