Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans," said a Malagasy delegate. "It's regrettable that your diplomats are not more active." Africans wondered why they were hearing no more from U.S. delegates of the five-point plan for African development announced by President Eisenhower last month. Most were frankly puzzled by U.S. failure to entertain visiting potentates or even to mingle freely at the almost nightly parties and receptions...
...when Premier Khrushchev demanded that he resign and proposed the plan to neutralize his office, Hammarskjold characteristically refused--and won a standing ovation from the General Assembly. Equally important, Prime Minister Nehru's speech was symbolic of a growing respect the African and Asian nations entertain for the Secretary-General...
...intelligent 20th century teen-ager will work hard at Latin when he is shown some of the many genuine values in such study. We need not always entertain him with superficialities...
...entering Drohitz. exults Gravedigger Adam Ember of the army's medical corps "we belonged to life once more." Dead Wrong. Ember, the passive tattered Everyman of both novels is dead wrong At first. Drohitz girls and Drohitz gilt shops make the troops royally wel come. City fathers entertain the officers at an orgiastic banquet that precedes a midnight trip to the Mashinka Drohitz' spectacular red-light district. There less than 24 hours after the army's arrival Embers commander and a prostitute called Black Narcissus die in agony from some unnamed disease...
...prisoner can be sent to any one of 43 "open" prisons, where only the front door is "symbolically" locked at night. At these cozy retreats, some of them former manor houses, the ten to 50 inmates have a common room with TV, may receive visitors once a week, even entertain in their rooms...