Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then it was back to Prague to greet a welcome guest: Rumania's President and party boss Nicolae Ceausescu, who strongly backs Dubcek's independent-minded policies. At a reception in his honor, Ceausescu cornered the Soviet Ambassador to Prague, Stepan Chervonenko. In full earshot of other guests, he gave the Russian a 30-minute lecture on the evils of interfering in other countries' affairs. As a gesture of unity, Ceausescu and the Czechoslovaks signed a new friendship pact between the two countries. The Czechoslovaks and Rumanians also discussed embarking upon a form of economic cooperation similar...
...Summer Liberation School" in a university-owned frat house, enticing nearly 600 young activists to such courses as racism in textbooks and Marxist philosophy. An uncoordinated assortment of trustee, alumni, faculty and student committees ponderously probed the campus problems -but to such little effect that chaos is likely to greet the reopening of classes next month...
...Regarding Air Commando Squadrons in Thailand [July 26], I'm reminded of the story during World War II when Lieut. Ryan of the U.S. Navy Seabees stepped out of the jungle of New Caledonia and onto the beach to greet an assemblage of Marines assaulting the beach with "The Seabees are always glad to welcome the Marines ashore." As in that case, in 1968 the Seabees of the more than 20 Seabee teams that have operated in the remotest parts of Thailand since 1963 are happy to welcome the Air Commandos aboard. We've treated nearly...
Dullness was the one thing I did not expect. When I got off my plane in Miami Sunday. I found myself thrust into a boisterous demonstration of young and old Rockefeller supporters, armed with brassy instruments, who had come to the airport to greet the Massachusetts delegation. They screamed and played so loud that no one could hear the public address announcements about departures and arrivals...
...film The Private Life of Henry VIII. He gorged himself at seven-hour banquets, eventually became so fat that he had to be moved up and down stairs by machinery. He toyed with court intrigues, then grimly ended them with executions; he was crude enough to greet the news of his first wife's death by dressing in yellow and staging a feast...