Word: attends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accordingly, much of Lodge's U.N. diplomacy is carried on through parties. He has to attend other delegations' parties, sometimes two or three a day, holds frequent gatherings of his own. Famous among U.N. delegations are Lodge's "sing fests," at which he lets go in a sonorous baritone in any of several languages, urges guests to let go, too. Even shy, reserved Secretary-General Hammarskjold has been known to join in a chorus. Lodge's favorite solo: a faintly bawdy ditty called She's a Personal Friend of Mine...
...tutored in privacy, Britain's royal Windsors have traditionally-like W. S. Gilbert's House of Peers -"made no pretense to intellectual eminence or scholarship sublime." Drawing down his term's end report from Cheam School, Charles, Prince of Wales, first heir to the throne to attend preparatory boarding school, showed an ambiguous relationship to the family tradition. With a 70, the prince led his 20-member class in geography. "In French," said a Cheam teacher, "he made excellent progress," i.e., 52; but "he did not do so well in maths. I don't think...
...year to establish courses in foreign languages not ordinarily taught in the U.S., and short-term institutes for the study of language-teaching methods, with stipends for students who attend...
...note was calculated to force Khrushchev to make the next move, ask for a U.N. summit meeting. Macmillan's note went further; it expressed "hope" that Khrushchev would attend the U.N. Security Council, noted that it would not be the purpose of the meeting "to register differences through voting," i.e., Khrushchev would not have to pack a veto...
...group disbanded in 1926, and officers of the Summer School expect tomorrow's forum to be something of a reunion. Ranson, Warren and Elliott will attend, along with Robert Lowell and William Alfred...