Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called it "absolutely absurd that we ... wanted to ruin the Duce, since we would be buried in the ruin." But he admitted that after the Council meeting he had gone to Marshal Badoglio, asked for a passport for himself, his wife Edda and their children. Prince Otto von Bismarck, Counselor of the German Embassy and a close friend, promised to put a plane at Ciano's disposal. Ciano was spirited into the plane, but it flew to Germany, not to Spain as he intended. Later Edda and the children escaped in a car to Switzerland, though police had blanket...
Kenneth found his new start in two small rooms in the Masonic Building: Grand Haven's "guidance center." In full possession of the center was a counselor, Dorothy Meeker Holmes, wife of a school superintendent, mother of two, clubwoman, civic worker. Counselor Holmes pondered the problem of Kenneth: how was he to get an education (preferably for a business or teaching career) which would make it unnecessary for a man with less than two lungs to return to a factory...
...Counselor Holmes thereupon...
Britons, willing enough to be taught by Jan Smuts, never think of him as an Afrikaner. They think of him as their elder counselor. In drawing rooms and pubs, when Jan Smuts's dry, old man's voice comes over the radio, the small talk and the bar laughter hushes, and they listen quietly; he is not quite one of themselves, but they respect him and are proud...
...kicking upstairs (to an innocuous post as Counselor of Embassy in Havana) of Allan Dawson, OARA's expert on Bolivia, because he protested against the State Department's inability to make up its mind about the new Bolivian regime...