Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he got to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, Rademaekers was met by a male guide who, seeing only an American alight from the plane, said that they must wait for a Frenchman who was also due. After two hours of warmhearted brandy tippling at the airport with Georgians, who obviously wanted to show their fondness for Americans, Rademaekers was inspired to ask the name of the overdue French tourist. "Rade-mekus," said the guide. Thus Bill Rademaekers discovered that he was waiting for himself...
...replaced her plane's inside furnishings, made up a special 3-ft. by 6-ft. bed for her in what is usually the first-class lounge. The Pope, Women's Wear Daily noted in its distinctively catty way, is given no better treatment. In Bangkok, she was met by Thai officials, slept at the Thai government's guesthouse before being ferried on to Pnompenh by a U.S. Air Force...
With his newfound political knowledge, Willie made the trek to New York in 1963, where he met the traditional rebuffs at the surly hands of cabbies, waiters and landlords. "I had known Mississippi rednecks," he complains, "mother-killers, grandmother-killers, sixth-year graduate students and spitballers who threw at your head; but I had never run up against people so lacking in the human graces." He found that New York literary types were not much better. One after another, the idols of his boyhood came tumbling down when he met them in the flesh...
...fact-finding investigation on behalf of the hated bloody-handed Pontius Pilate. Just as improbable would have been a trial after sundown-especially on the eve of Passover, when most members of the Sanhedrin would have been busy with ritual preparations for the feast. Still, if they had met, under Jewish law any condemnation would have required the sworn testimony of at least two trustworthy witnesses. Even according to the Gospels, none could be found. Why, then, did the Jewish authorities summon Jesus? Their motive, Cohn believes, may well have been a desire to recoup their waning popular prestige...
Being the granddaughter of Richard King, she also left behind upwards of $10 million-all of it bequeathed to "my dearly beloved friend," a 35-year-old patrolman named Michael De Bella. The policeman has never explained how he met Miss Atwood, but a grandmotherly affection obviously developed in the heart of the reclusive old lady, so painfully shy that the only known photograph of her was taken when she was a child. Sometimes De Bella invited her to dine with his family; he often spent his lunch hour visiting her lonely hotel apartment...