Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This friendly host then surprised his guests by disclosing that the U.S.S.R. had tested a neutron warhead "many years ago [but] never started production." U.S. experts agree that the Soviets have the ability to develop such a weapon, but there is no way to confirm tests because they would have been held underground. The Carter Administration is still considering whether the U.S. will produce neutron warheads; they could provide NATO with a devastating defense against Soviet tank attacks. It is perhaps for this reason that Moscow has been waging a worldwide propaganda campaign against U.S. development of the weapon. Brezhnev...
...sometimes unique in the problems of protocol and manners it presents. Example: the nude after-dinner soak in the host's hot tub, as its waters are roiled by a Jacuzzi. Californians manage to maintain a casual dignity rather well; the rules are fairly well established and usually observed. They start from the presumption that not everyone may be inclined to participate. Therefore neither the host nor hostess may be the first to strip, nor may they even suggest it. Rather, convention requires what seems to be a spontaneous impulse on the part of a guest, who ideally should...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Barry Goldwater Jr., 40, five-term Republican Congressman from California and son of the Arizona Senator; from Susan Gherman Goldwater, 32, host of the Ohio talk show Columbus Alive; after six years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...
...real estate. Speaking to American bankers in the U.S. last year, SAMA Governor Abdel Aziz Qoreishi explained that realty investment "raises sensitive national concerns in most host countries and has not been, we judge, welcome even in so free an economy as yours...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1974 ban on the use as a propellant of vinyl chloride, shown to be the cause of a rare form of liver cancer, from a host of aerosol products...