Word: hosting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to work is given by the fact that they can be expelled for writing anything that the Communist governments do not like. Under the severe laws governing military and economic espionage, that could be as simple a thing as reporting the amount of money in circulation-or a host of other common facts & figures openly published by the Western democratic press. If a correspondent manages to get the Press Ministry's permission to leave the capital of his country, an official guide is usually assigned to see to it that he sees only favorable things. As a result...
...started the Saturday night the Harvard Rugby Club arrived. Pan-American Airways, the driving host of the tourist trade, was holding a Welcome-Farewell formal ball at the Elbow Beach Surf Club. Some collegians, it seems, were leaving, and some were arriving; PAA were killing two birds with one stone. Refreshments, however, were not on the house...
Wednesday afternoon, it was the Royal Navy's turn to play the genial host. The navy celebration was held on board, the mighty cruiser H.M.S. Glasgow and featured free refreshments and illustrated tours of the ship. Those members of the team who had enjoyed service in the U.S.N. saw fit to miss this one and made a beeline over to the Elbow Beach Surf Club to make hay while the sun shone. The Elbow Beach Surf Club, it will be remembered, was where the visiting college girls were quartered...
Meanwhile, at BU, Coach Mel Collard has no outstanding players but he does have a balanced team which has been bolstered by a host of sophomores up from last year's undefeated freshman squad...
Besides playing host to Winston Churchill and other visiting notables last week, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attended to some personal business: it inaugurated a new president, James Rhyne Killian...