Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deadliest denizen of Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp's disorderly world is the Lower Slobbovian Bald Iggle, the gentle-looking bird that fixes a maddening, sad-eyed stare upon anybody who tells a lie. If Lower Slobbovia really existed and the U.S. needed an ambassador there, Washington would do well to send Manhattan Dress Merchant Maxwell Henry Gluck. Of all the foreign diplomats in Lower Slobbovia, Max Gluck alone would be so honest that he would run into no trouble with Bald Iggles...
...final official farewell gesture, the President honored Humphrey with a black-tie White House stag dinner, attended by the Cabinet and other top Government leaders, e.g., Vice President Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Later, Treasury officials put up the cost of a new black leather chair ($116.50) for Humphrey's hand-picked successor, Lawyer-Financier Robert Anderson, 47, onetime (1954-55) Deputy Defense Secretary. The next black-chair souvenir, Washington suspected, will go to another businessman turned Administration stalwart, outgoing, outspoken Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson-as soon as the Administration can find a good and willing...
...Received courtesy calls from H.R.H. Marshal Sardar Shah Mahmoud Khan Ghazi, sometime (1946-53) Prime Minister of Afghanistan, and Thai Ambassador to the U.S. Pote Sarasin, soon to take off as Secretary-General of the Dulles-built, anti-Communist Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO...
...screened porch in the residence of the U.S. ambassador in green and summery Ottawa, two tall, greying men stood elbow to elbow one evening last week, each intent upon the other. While cocktail-party chatter echoed in other rooms, John George Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked, gestured, sipped from a glass of orange juice. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, cradled a rye highball in his hand as he nodded, smiled, listened. Thus casually, top officials of the world's two most neighborly nations began to explore the subtle new relationship that must come about...
...answering them, with the help of two weekly guests ranging from a British ambassador to Gypsy Rose Lee. Moderator Bergen Evans and Panelist John Mason Brown have fought a running duel over such issues as dangling prepositions, split infinitives, and smokes that "taste good like a cigarette should...