Word: greeting
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Boris Nikolayevich has an heir! No, the increasingly decrepit President Yeltsin hasn?t improbably sired a late-in-life son; on Monday he named his intelligence chief as his sixth prime minister in 17 months ?- and made clear that Vladimir Putin should succeed him as President. "Russians greet changes of government with a shrug, but the country is reeling on Yeltsin?s announcement that his new prime minister is his chosen successor as president," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "His vanity and self-preservation instinct has never allowed Yeltsin to previously name an heir...
...night John F. Kennedy returned from the Democratic National Convention as the party's nominee for President, his two-year-old daughter Caroline toddled out of the family's Hyannis Port home to greet her father. Immediately a fusillade of photographers' camera bulbs went off, and the frightened Caroline turned away. "Don't be afraid," J.F.K. told her. "They won't hurt you." In the 39 years since, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has rarely run willingly into the glare of public attention. Instead she has allowed her cousins to inherit the Kennedy legacy of political ambition and her younger brother...
...W.S.P.U. adopted a French Revolutionary sense of crowd management, public spectacle and symbolic ceremony. They would greet one of their number on release from prison and draw her triumphantly in a flower-decked wagon through the streets, and they staged elaborate allegorical pageants and torchlight processions, with Mrs. Pankhurst proudly walking at their head (if she wasn't in jail). Her example was followed internationally: the U.S. suffragist Alice Paul, who had taken part in suffragist agitation when she was a student at the London School of Economics, imported Pankhurst militancy to the U.S., leading a march 5,000 strong...
...event concluded with a singing of both "Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee" and "Fair Harvard...
Although many of the attendees' questions focused on the process of becoming a member, this meet-and-greet session had no bearing on how women will fare as the club chooses new members in the fall and spring...