Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handkerchief pocket, and he held a glass of what appeared to be grapefruit juice. Now and then he would whisper conspiratorially to Bulganin or laugh over his shoulder to Mikoyan or talk with proper gravity to the beaming Egyptian War Minister. I elbowed my way in like a diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly ignoring the listening, watching press, he seemed calm and in good temper as he surveyed the crowd, shook hands with the incoming Japanese ambassador. I stood only three feet from him, clicking away, looking for a flicker...
...those families where polygamy is still practiced-particularly among the rich-the women often take a sophisticated view. In Manhattan, a slim, exquisitely gowned wife of an Eastern diplomat argued that taking a second wife was no different from the Western practice of taking a mistress. "The problem of the man who wants more than one woman is as old as humanity. We don't think the Western nations have found a really better solution...
...Consent. "After Morocco became independent," said one Western diplomat, "the enthusiasm of the women was almost frightening. They tore off their veils, shouted themselves hoarse, whenever Laila Aisha appeared. Now they seem to be nearing the middle...
...successor is a career diplomat with a reputation for getting along with all kinds of people on every side of a dispute. Sir Hugh is a brother of Ipswich's new Labor M.P. Dingle Foot and left-wing Laberite Michael Foot, editor of Aneurin Beva.i's Tribune. Tall, shrewd, Cambridge-trained Sir Hugh has served in posts ranging from Nigeria (where a terrorist slashed his jacket in an assassination attempt) to Palestine (where both Arabs and Jews considered him a friend). He is favorably remembered in Cyprus as a World War II civilian official who was liked...
French Dressing. In London, an "Honest French Diplomat" advertising to rent his apartment in the Sunday Times, specified that "being a Socialist he refuses to profit on the housing shortage...