Word: greetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snug and thriving little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...
Over 1200 students stormed through Cambridge streets early last night to greet the varsity's homecoming in a fast 35-minute football rally prefacing the team's home opener...
...squadron of four U.S. warships (cruisers Columbus and Juneau, destroyers Stribling and Bordelon) steamed into the harbor of El Ferrol, where Francisco Franco was born. While ships of the Spanish Navy fired a salute, the U.S. vessels dropped anchor. High-ranking Spanish officials climbed aboard the flagship Columbus to greet Admiral Richard Conolly, Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. From then on, until the Americans left five days later, there was a round of receptions, dinners and ceremonies. U.S. sailors poured ashore to see the sights as far inland as Madrid and Toledo...
...guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from...
...invasion was a promotion stunt cooked up to encourage tourist trade and to commemorate the landing in 449 of the Saxon chiefs Henges & Horsa. To greet last week's seafaring Danes (and put them in their place), a British band struck up Britannia, Rule the Waves...