Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British consul arrived from Boston and joined ranks at the head of a troop of Minute Men dressed in Revolutionary garb. "Odaaaah-HOO!" the leader cried; or at any rate, that was the gist of what he said. The consul snapped his heels together, standing tall, slim, wearing a proper bowler and a double-breasted navy pinstripe. British tailoring, you know, jacket rather shorter than American. Nipped in at the waist Righto...
They marched off, passed the Lexington Green, entered the Revolutionary graveyard. The minister in charge offered a blessing and announced that the consul would decorate the grave of a British redcoat in "memory" of Anglo-American relations...
...defendants offered their alibis. A number of men testified that they had bought fish from Vanzetti at hours that made it impossible for him to have been in Braintree at the time of the murder; some became confused on cross-examination and made contradictory statements. The Italian consul in Boston and a number of others testified that Sacco had been in Boston getting his passport on the fifteenth, just as he had told his employer...
...fled from Elisabethville "a frightened and dejected man," in the words of British and Belgian officials, he turned up last week in Kolwezi, where the last 3,000 of his 20,000-man gendarmerie were holed up. A two-man peace mission composed of Jacques Houard, Belgium's consul general in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and André Van Roey, director of Katanga's National Bank, followed him there. For 36 desperate hours, the two urged him to yield rather than carry out his threat to blow up the huge dams and copper and cobalt mines operated...
...hired girl could manage fairly well on plain things, but for one young St. Louis bride that was not enough. Irma Rombauer had sampled some of the pleasures of European cooking when her father served for several years as American consul in Bremen. In those turn-of-the-century days, directions for more exotic dishes were almost always in French, and began: "Make a white sauce, stir until ready." Or: "Simmer your leftover grouse for 36 hours and season to taste with duxelles." Irma Rombauer had no idea how to make a white sauce or what duxelles was-even...