Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that he had lost, and took their problems to him as if he were their actual Deputy. In 1956 Youlou was elected mayor of Brazzaville (pop. 100,000) in a landslide. By the time Charles de Gaulle visited Brazzaville last summer, the abbé was able to greet the general three different times in reception lines, by appearing in his three different capacities-as mayor, assemblyman and Minister of Agriculture...
Ruth is a dramaturgic necessity. Soliloquies are unworkable in the realistic convention within which this play is written, and Dillon must have someone to talk to who will greet his outbursts with something other than scandalized incomprehension. But the authors have attempted to make something of her besides a confidante for Dillon. They have equipped her with some plot-material of her won, and her own bag-full of points to make...
After five years at Harvard, Mrs. Pusey expresses only one regret. At Lawrence, where she worked extensively in the College's extracurricular activities, Mrs. Pusey could sit at her kitchen window and greet any student who passed--by his first name. Here, she has been able to know only a handful of undergraduates, and says that seeing students "is the thing I miss most...
...will accept if elected. Voting is held the following night, and those who escape the blackballs are notified of their election at 8 a.m. the next morning. They must accept or refuse by noon, and in the intervening hours the club members wait anxiously behind the front door to greet the accepting sophomores (outside on the steps, for they are not yet official members...
...been applied to everything from Godot* to Bardot, was formally pinned on Brando. But the experts disagreed violently about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials of a true beatnik. Certain habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead...