Word: sendoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing at unusual times and place is the Band's favorite trick--and a trademark. The musicians once got out of bed at dawn to give the cross-country team, bound for a championship meet, a musical sendoff at South Station. At another time they showed up in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria and then marched through the streets of New York playing Christmas carols...
...leave of absence from his boss, the Thai government. As is customary, his family gave a lavish party, inviting more than 100 well-wishers on the eve of the journey. Then at 7 a.m. the next day, all began the procession to the temple. A brass band thumped the sendoff, and while Jerm traveled aboard a slow-moving Jeep, young girls carried candles, Jerm's mother brought his saffron robe, an uncle (his father is dead) carried the skull-shaped, cast-iron begging bowl, and his wife followed with the simple bedding he would use during his seclusion...
...away by panning slowly across thousands of empty seats. After that, embarrassed East German Communists gave up live TV coverage of the Khrushchev tour, and set about organizing a monster windup rally in East Berlin's Marx-Engels Platz that would give their Russian master a Red-hot sendoff...
...with Arabs who outnumber them eight to one. For a year they had cold-shouldered Catroux's predecessor, Governor General Jacques Soustelle. But now, by comparison, Soustelle seemed a hero. Some 50,000 Europeans jammed the streets of Algiers to give him and Mme. Soustelle a bewilderingly touching sendoff. The colons were equally noisy in proclaiming their refusal to be governed by General Catroux...
...opening night, with the French interested in a film-exchange deal, the week got an impressive official sendoff. The plush Normandie Theater on the Champs Elysees was flanked by rows of Gardes Republicans in scarlet-trimmed uniforms. The band blared the Marseillaise and the Internationale, and into the theater flocked French and Russian officials with a cluster of bejeweled Soviet film stars who were long on furs and high on necklines...