Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately Communist cries of "gangster diplomacy" rang out. They were answered promptly by bull-tongued Admiral William F. Halsey, who snorted: "It's nobody's damn business where we go. We will go anywhere we please." Of course blustering "Bull" Halsey, whose diplomatic age is about seven and a half, was a bad boy to say it. But many an inhibited career diplomat and citizen were glad that...
...pastel-tinted, rambling ranch houses and hangars of "Thunderbird One," the Institute planned to train a new kind of cadet, the young businessman or diplomat prepping for a Latin-American career. Yount's salary as president of "Thunderbird College": $1,000 a month...
...only one of the 14-man Politburo (see chart) which made that policy, and every decision of the 14 could be changed or reversed by one man, Stalin. But in the field of foreign affairs Molotov was the chief executor of the Politburo's will. Last week a diplomat who has spent more than a decade in close study of the Russians called Molotov "perhaps the best executor of policy in the world...
...illusions about his impending fate, was unmoved by the speech. But many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
...earned a new kind of sheepskin called an "equivalency certificate." Equivalencies are the year-old idea of the American Council on Education, which saw the need of grading special cases with the right knowledge but not the right papers (e.g., the girl who studied with private tutors, the diplomat's son who went to school abroad). Many wanted the certificates to apply for college; more needed them to land jobs that called for high-school diplomas or a reasonable facsimile...