Word: ambassadorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author of the post-war policy of "containment," Kennan more recently advanced proposals for a "disengagement" on the continent. Since 1950 he has taught at the Institute for Advanced Study, except for his Ambassadorship...
...offer of an ambassadorship, but, crippled and still ill, he "did not think that was right, either." In 1957, when he could work again, he took his present job as president of a small real-estate firm. Current salary: $180 a month. Scrimping, saving, and struggling with a budget have not made Cafe Filho bitter. He lives with his wife, Jandyra, 56, (they have a son, 16, who is preparing for the naval academy), in the three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Beach where he has lived for the past 15 years, even as President...
...diplomat . . . The role for which I believe she is well qualified is that of political hatchetman; she does very well at making inflammatory and demagogic political speeches; she and her husband contribute heavily to the Republican coffers. And for this she is being rewarded with an ambassadorship...
Aref, a thrusting young Arab nationalist, fell because he tried to force Iraq into a quick union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. An Iraqi nationalist before all, Premier Kassem had tried to divest his friend by exiling him to the ambassadorship to West Germany. When Aref returned without permission at an awkward time, the Premier ordered his arrest. Kassem had decided personally, said the prosecutor, not to divulge "details" of Aref's trial, "in the interests of Arab solidarity." Nor was any sentence made public, though for treason there is usually only one punishment, and that quite...
...former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? ... It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them...