Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vivid example of change was the chance we had to talk with Andrei Sakharov, a meeting that, as % he noted, only two months before could not have taken place. He and his wife were gracious hosts -- he braving the cold and the gaggle of waiting reporters and photographers to greet us outside their apartment building, she serving us tea and homemade cake during our two-hour visit...
Shortly before 6:30 each weekday, the gray Toyota station wagon glides down the driveway and stops a few feet beyond the steel security fence in Great Falls, Va. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North rolls down his window to greet the watching press corps shivering in the dark. Ever cordial, the former National Security Council aide exchanges light banter with the group. A photographer warns him that an accident is already clogging commuter traffic, and North retorts in mock dismay, "You mean I have to listen to the news?" A few flashbulbs pop and North speeds down the narrow country road...
Albert tried to consult with his linesmen for reasons that are mysterious. Harvard goalie Dickie McEvoy, who had started out of his crease to greet his teammates as Hodges shot went in, chased Albert around the ice until Cleary yanked him away...
...exam results, going for picnics in the countryside. The narrator himself appears to have been a regular little scamp who delighted in gambling with rubber bands, spraying his friends with Pepsi at his elder sister's wedding and lining up with his schoolmates in a bright new uniform to greet a foreign dignitary with the cry of "Long life to Jacqueline Kennedy...
According to Dunn the study began two years ago when she started working at the Department of Medicine and asked for advice about how to greet patients and how to dress so as to be "appropriate...