Word: sendoff
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...This morning . . . University students are being asked to give the Welverines a rousing sendoff as they leave for New York to meet the Black Knights of Army tomorrow afternoon . . . sure, the team will be "Up" for tomorrow's game anyway, but let's be up with them this morning...
This week, Princeton's Jefferson project was getting a sendoff seldom if ever matched in the history of scholarship. Among those scheduled to mark the occasion in a ceremony at the Library of Congress were President Truman, General George C. Marshall, and Historian (Lee's Lieutenants, George Washington) Douglas Southall Freeman...
Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, which will be auctioned off as the Queen's own contribution to Britain's dollar shortage (TIME, Feb. 6), got a queenly sendoff on its American tour. Arriving on the liner Queen Mary, it was displayed for three days in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to 30,000 gaping visitors. Then it was packed into its satin-lined chest, shipped off to Ottawa. By the time its transcontinental travels end in Baltimore, in June, the royal rug will have been on view in 22 U.S. and Canadian cities...
...20th Century-Fox). When Willie went marching off, the little town of Punxsutawney gave him a sendoff worthy of its first citizen to enlist in World War II. When Willie's troop train stopped in Punxsutawney one month later, the town gave him a welcome fit for a man on his way to war. But when the Army bogged him down at a nearby airfield while all his buddies went overseas, the neighbors began cutting him, his father wanted him out of sight, and even the dogs barked at him when he slunk through the streets...
...Roosevelt's first great-grandchild, three-week-old Nicholas ("Little Bear") Seagraves put on a below-par performance at an old F.D.R. sport: posing for a horde of photographers. While parents "Sistie" (White House moppet during the early New Deal) and Van Seagraves beamed over his public sendoff, Nicholas snoozed through the flashbulbs...