Word: confidante
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Eban was referring to a statement by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat demanding "a timetable for withdrawal." But diplomats in Cairo considered Sadat's statement, made during a visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More...
For example. Image: Daumier doctors (no, not Daumier) attend to the ailing Cardinal Mazarin. They assume grave countenances and huddle aside for a conference with Colbert, Mazarin's aid and confidant. Diagnosis: lung dropsy. Prescription: bleeding and the ingestion of rhubarb and precious stones. The opening sequences of Louis XIV...
"I wouldn't see anything wrong with a woman President," Democrat Patsy Mink said after her 1964 election to Congress. Dr. Edgar Berman, Hubert Humphrey's personal physician and confidant, sees plenty wrong with a female Chief Executive. When he said so to the Congresswoman from Hawaii at...
In 1950, Heath won a seat in the House of Commons by a mere 133 votes. A few years later, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan chose him as a junior minister and confidant because he felt that Heath knew more than anyone else about the party's affairs in Commons. During...
Bahr, who is one of three state secretaries in the chancellery, is Brandt's Henry Kissinger. A former journalist who became Brandt's press spokesman and confidant during the Chancellor's days as mayor of West Berlin, Bahr is an originator and still a fervent advocate of...