Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People's Army had grabbed them almost as soon as they landed-ignominiously out of gas-on a beach near Tsingtao; to their amazement they were treated simultaneously as prisoners of war and as friends and possible converts. They were marched off to a distant village, but were neither jailed nor put to work. Their guards-soldiers, who "would have made a Marine top sergeant blow his top"-supplied them with rice, gave them fish and meat when it was available...
Lowell's total for the two-day meet was 36 1/2 points, exactly half Kirkland's score. Eliot was a distant third, with 21 points, while Adams and Winthrop tied for fourth with 16 each...
Since a penchant for public confession is one of the most essential items of equipment for a would-be mahatma, Dalmia concentrated on owning up past misdeeds. He admitted that he had once been seized with passion for a distant female relative. "Shamelessly, I proposed a meeting to [my first wife] . . . She lost no time in getting friendly with the lady and persuaded her to agree to my beastly proposal." He admitted, too, that his business morality had been shaky: "I feel as if I had sucked the blood of the poor in establishing the big name of Dalmia...
...imagine what sort of reception my husband will get in your country," said Liaquat Ali Khan's wife last week. "Americans will probably think he is Rita Hayworth's brother-in-law or perhaps a distant cousin of the Shah of Iran." Liaquat Ali Khan, the 54-year-old Prime Minister of Pakistan, due to arrive in Washington this week, is not related to any Oriental potentates, but his power and influence are far greater than those of any princeling in the Islamic world...
Married. King Phumiphon of Siam, 22, Boston-born, saxophone-tootling King of Siam; and Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, 17, his distant royal cousin; in Bangkok (see PEOPLE...