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Word: ambassadors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter of U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia George Wadsworth. The prince tried to oblige, was repulsed. With that, Mashhur brandished a small fist, whacked the tearful girl on the shoulder, got his buss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Little Prince | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Former Ambassador to Japan John Allison, 51, Dulles' principal staff deputy in Japanese peace-treaty negotiations, has been named Ambassador to Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Changes in the Works | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Onetime Harvard President James Conant, 63, resigned as Ambassador to the German Federal Republic, may be replaced, if Senate Republicans approve, by David K. E. Bruce, 58, Baltimore lawyer, Harry Truman's Ambassador to France (1949-52) and onetime (1952-53) Under Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Changes in the Works | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...present trip to the New World, Barrault began by saluting another man's more famous voyage there. Christophe Colomb, written by the late French poet (and Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel, celebrates the discoverer of America as no American playwright has ever bothered to do. Not a play but a pageant, a piece of "total theater," Christophe Colomb employs language, music, choruses, crowds, ballet, a movie screen, a narrator. Nor is Colomb just biographical. It is encrusted with philosophic thought, is suffused with Catholic Poet Claudel's intense religious feeling, and indeed concludes with Queen Isabella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Westward Ho | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown a pie at the ambassador's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from Downunderground | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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