Word: bureaucratical
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...suite at the Plaza Athenee Hotel. They knew they could not quote him, and that most of their questions would be parried. But he surprised many of them by fending them affably, in fair French or good English. About himself he was properly mysterious: the wise Russian bureaucrat shuns personal publicity in the foreign press...
...year-old wife of plump, jovial Eddy Gilmore, the A.P.'s Moscow Bureau chief, now on leave in the U.S. It took a cable from Wendell Willkie to Joseph Stalin to make their marriage possible. Tamara Chernashova was a dancer in Moscow's famous ballet until some bureaucrat transferred her so that she would not see too much of the American reporter. (Their two-year-old daughter is named Victoria Wendell...
...good bureaucrat needs to be happy is a bureau-any bureau. Not understanding this universal law of nature, Moscow s Komsomolskaya Pravda waxed wroth last week at a bureaucrat named Bylinkin who could just as well have worked in Omsk, Tomsk or Washington...
Andrei A. Gromyko was the Russian bureaucrat, stern, stubborn, suspicious. The dark, youngish (38) ambassador spoke in a monotone, looking neither to right nor left, as though talking into space or lecturing, as he used to before a Russian class in economics. He talked in Russian; at previous conferences he used English. He repeated himself; twelve times he used the phrase "postpone consideration of the question until the loth of April." He evaded rather than answered questions...
Shock-haired, 45-year-old Sam Allison, director of the new Institute of Nuclear Studies, said that the Manhattan Project had ruined him by turning him from a good research worker into a bureaucrat. Said he: "Scientists want to publish their work so that it will do the most good for mankind. The Army wants to pay us to produce things, and keep quiet...