Word: hosting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea," explained Joseph van der Straeten, mine host at La Paix tavern in Belgium's seaside city of Knocke, "was to float slowly over the beach so that everyone could see me, then drop a trail rope to a waiting launch which would tow me back to shore. Generally speaking, it is a good idea. I've done it more than 60 times before. But this time it was not a good idea...
Moorish King. Jordan's Abdullah arrived at La Coruña, a few miles down the coast from El Ferrol, before the Americans left. Disgruntled because his British masters had put him aboard an ordinary passenger steamer, the Highland Brigade, the Hashimite sovereign had his pride restored when Host Franco stopped the British steamer in the harbor and provided a Spanish naval launch for his Arab guest to come ashore in regal style...
...comic book, Gang Busters, usually a hectic free-for-all of ricocheting bullets, cold-blooded criminals and implacable law enforcers, played host last week to a mild-mannered youth. In the midst of its bimonthly gallery of firebugs, homicidal maniacs, fight fixers, railroad wreckers, waterfront thugs and redblooded, straight-shooting minions of the law stood a pale blond youth named Buzzy. He was there to advise action-loving gangbuster fans not to join the ever-growing band of "stayouts" who decide each year that seeking their fortune in the world is more exciting than completing their public-school education...
...Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Also a big batch of coon, possum and .'taters from Alabama's First Congressional District which, proclaimed the booming host, is God's country. Then, after a few cases of Scotch and bourbon to wash down the appetizers, there was the dinner itself-fresh shrimp, green turtle soup, Steak Rayburn (a double-cut smothered in mushrooms), a few hookers of brandy and fragrant Coronas...
...Heart of Texas. The microphone suddenly was silent. "The damned thing's dead," shouted the host, but he went on anyway. "Sam Rayburn is a great man; he has a heart as big as the state of Texas." Some big brass-Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Justice-to-be Tom Clark, Attorney General-to-be Howard McGrath -praised long and industriously the long and illustrious career of Texas' Sam Rayburn. Sam himself stood up to speak modestly of his past and express hope that "our ancient institutions of freedom could meet their new challenge...