Word: gratae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position that closely resembles Peronism. During the campaign the Argentine Ambassador in Quito, Cesar Salvador Mazzetti, so clearly showed his support of Velasco that Plaza declared the diplomat persona non grata for meddling in Ecuadorian politics, and packed him off to Buenos Aires...
...abristle, Scholar Raugel hauled out his proofs. Composer Moulinié, he declared, had never written a mass, much less one for a French king. Moulinié was court composer to Gaston-Jean-Baptiste d'Orléans, Louis XIll's brother and enemy, and was persona non grata at Louis' court. Moreover, trumpets were not used as musical instruments until the 18th century, and Vivat Rex was never sung at the end of a mass; it was shouted three times before the mass began. Raugel had suspected Father Martin's "discovery," but had not been stirred...
Seduction? At this point, Premier de Gasped hit the ceiling. "Not only Mr. Dayton but ECA is persona non grata," he cried. Italy's Minister of the Treasury Giuseppe Pella. a former economics professor, stood indignantly on the seemingly solid ground of fiscal rectitude, creating the unusual impression that the U.S. was trying to seduce a thrifty government into leading a dissolute economic life...
...specific naming of the Communist party as persona non grata at the University of California was a change in the oath, but actually nothing new so far as the university was concerned. As far back as October 11, 1940 the Board of Regents had passed a resolution excluding members of the Communist Party from employment by the university...