Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nchez withdrew to greet several thousand of his own partisans at La Fortaleza and to ponder running as an independent. His candidacy would drain off many votes that normally would go to the P.D.P. nominee. Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...
...weeks, Humphrey has a superabundance of delegate votes but a surprising lack of popular support. Robert Kennedy would have been mobbed in Hough; Humphrey was scarcely noticed. Eugene McCarthy attracts the young and active; Humphrey's audiences tend to be middle-aged and lethargic. The only ones who greet the Democratic front runner with anything like real friendliness and enthusiasm are Democratic politicians...
...contest winners will gain niches in British folklore, but few will rate the special affection that went to diffident Alec Rose, as he quietly accepted the tributes of 200,000 horn-honking fans who overran Portsmouth, his home town, to greet him. Unlike Chichester, Rose had no commercial sponsor. From the moment, five years ago, when he hauled the dilapidated Lively Lady off a mudbank and started to fit her out for the rough 50-week sail, determination counted far more heavily than cash in his achievement. "It makes you feel rather humble," said Alec, "that everybody wants to congratulate...
...rabbi had to say. Conference officials proclaimed his visit "another cynical act on the part of the Soviet Union to hamper relationships between Soviet and American Jews." Levin's first press conference was turned into a shambles by two rival spokesmen of the crowd that had come to greet him, each of whom tried to outshout the other for the privilege of delivering the welcoming speech. To restore order, Levin finally turned his back on both of them, faced the wall and started chanting the minhah, the Jewish evensong...
...Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...