Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governments in Motion. Meantime crowds drawn by the live television and radio reports poured into the area. A German Olympic hostess walked boldly up the street and spotted a guerrilla peering out from a half-open door of the apartment house. "If you give yourselves up," she called to him in English, "nothing will happen." He answered gruffly in the same language: "No." A chorus of a hundred young Jews broke through police cordons and loudly sang the Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, followed by the U.S. civil rights hymn We Shall Overcome...
...teachers. The discussions were conducted in a counselor's living room, in the students' homes and at a local coffee shop. Periodically nonplused by the students' candor, Cory was also occasionally ill at ease for quite different reasons. "I could see the eyebrows of the coffeehouse hostess rise," he says, "when I showed up for the second day to buy lunch for a different teen age girl...
...restaurant is open for lunch from 11 to 2 and for dinner from 5:30 to 10 Mon, Thurs, and until 11 on Friday and Saturday. It's open for dinner until 10 on Sunday. A hostess shows you to the nearest table with a view of Mt. Auburn Street, with its trolleys, parking lot, and Treadway Inn. Passersby peer at you from the sidewalk, through unwashed windows. The three dining rooms are oaken, motel style with Dubuffet reproductions on the wall...
...House of Commons. They met in 1917, during an air raid, when Freda Ward took refuge in the cellar of a house where a noisy party was going on. She chatted in the gloom with an unknown guest in his early 20s, and after the all-clear, the hostess pressed her to join the party: "His Royal Highness is so anxious that you should do so." They danced together all night, he escorted her home, and a friendship began that lasted for 17 years. But in the spring of 1934, after several weeks of preoccupation with an ill relative, Freda...
...country girl actually raised in a log cabin in Elba, Ala. ("We used to go fishing for mud fish in the Pea River -that's what it was called"), Cornelia heard constant talk of politics from her twice-widowed mother, Ruby Folsom Ellis Austin,* who served as official hostess for her brother before he remarried. Cornelia's father, Charles G. Ellis, a civil engineer, died in 1960. At Montgomery's Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang...