Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at work and glowing with good will, Harry Truman wanted the balky members of the 81st Congress to know he was ready to talk things over at any time. To make sure he would be there to greet all callers, he canceled his four out-of-town dates for April-a speech at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation, a trip to receive an honorary law degree at Boston College, a speech at the U.N.'s cornerstone-laying ceremony, a dinner for Israel's President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this...
...Valpey will greet his second batch of spring football candidates this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in Dillon Field House when the football staff holds the organizational meeting for the six week grind. Actual workouts begin March...
When Eisler last spoke here, late in April 1948, the expected outburst of trouble fizzled briefly and then settled into spasmodic heckling from the audience. Two students in cossack costumes provided the only incident of the evening. But they barely got to greet Eisler before they were ejected from the meeting...
Four for Four. This week, with every gilded chassis and every cutaway transmission in place, G.M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson and his four executive vice presidents would stand atop a marble staircase at the Waldorf to greet their guests and show their wares, on which they had spent a round $150 million for retooling. All of G.M.'s cars showed a drastic change either inside or out. They were so low and rakish that a small man could look over the top. They had wider seats (average front seat width: 62 inches), little change in wheelbases...
...here at TIME for our overseas correspondents, most of whom are American-trained journalists, to return to their native U.S. at frequent intervals for firsthand conversations with TIME'S editors and a reacquaintance with the changing American scene and idiom. Seldom, however, do we have a chance to greet a correspondent who is visiting the U.S. for the first time...