Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Harvard, Thomas Hollis, Isaac Watts, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton, Haward Mumford Jones, and an enormous host of others nad not thought it worthwhile for an educated person to form a private library, there would not now be at Harvard ready access for students and professors to what you correctly call "one of the best and biggest library systems in the world." Just look at the bookplates in many of the books you use in that system and you should quickly see that its existence does not represent some kind of bibliographical parthenogenesis...
While the Concorde goes through a 16-month trial period of daily flights into Kennedy, both airlines are looking for other host cities. Last year British Airways lost $25 million and Air France $44 million operating their Concordes. To break even, BA would have to keep each of its five Concordes in the air 7½ hours a day with 60% to 70% passenger loads this year. Right now the Concordes are logging about half that much flight time. BA now is negotiating with Braniff International to lease the plane for flights between Washington and Dallas-a final link...
Exploiting the breakthrough, Sadat last week invited "all the parties to the conflict-including Israel-to meet here in Cairo and prepare for a Geneva conference." He told the cheering Egyptian national People's Assembly that he was prepared to be host to such a meeting as early as this week. Sadat's announcement caught the eligible participants-Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviet Union-by surprise. The Israelis indicated that they were willing to attend. Syria, seething over Sadat's overtures to Israel, rejected the invitation flatly. The U.S. was interested...
...young man from Yonkers will have plenty of help--the host of freshmen recruited by his coach is the best since Don Gambril brought scores of All-Americans to Cambridge in 1973 and 1974. Heading the list is freestyler Julian Mack, the 1977 Illinois state 100-yd. champion, who has gone 47.0 in that event...
That night our host seems to tire...