21.   They are known as gracious hosts.

22.   They are gracious hosts.

23.   China, initially eager to play the gracious host, has been more and more blunt in recent days in its rebukes of outspoken foreigners.

24.   Fidel Castro is ever the gracious host, so solicitous toward his distinguished guest that he claims to preach similar ideas.

25.   For a man who eats napkins, Avner Eisenberg is a surprisingly gracious host.

26.   Japan was halfway there, in reach of the gold medal it craves to make it a winner as well as a gracious host at its home Olympics.

27.   Likewise, the Marines, who are based in Okinawa, Japan, said the Malaysians were gracious hosts.

28.   The Beijing government, initially eager to play the gracious host, has been more and more blunt in recent days in its rebukes of outspoken foreigners.

29.   The farming couple were gracious hosts, presenting two pieces of homespun silk cloth for Elizabeth and one for Prince Philip.

30.   Though ever the gracious host, putting on an event of Olympic magnitude has not been easy on Nagano.