Word: gratae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about being anyone else. I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with. I've never had it easy. I'm not like all you ... all those people who had it so easy.' " Gloria is now persona non grata among the Nixon entourage, but else where she is in much demand. Her mail and phone calls one recent week included offers to: work as a woman's newscaster on a national network, collaborate on setting her interview with Pat Nixon to music, write the introduction to a German...
Lincoln wouldn't have a chance today. He was homely, poor and honest and in addition, had an unattractive wife. This would make him persona non grata by today's shallow standards. The build up of unqualified candidates via TV and the news media is disgusting...
...Women's Wear Baily was barred from the reception merely for revealing the wedding-dress design, TIME'S people must have been maxima non grata after printing that 1956 snapshot. Even we Lyndonphobes thought it ungentlemanly to remind the swan there was a duckling...
Incensed, the Dutch government immediately declared Li persona non grata, gave him 24 hours to leave the country. Amid reports that the murdered Hsu had been trying to defect to the West, Dutch police surrounded the Chinese mission in order to question any of his fellow welding delegates who might try to leave. None...
Everyone found out what was wrong last week when the FBI released details of the case. Careless George Careful was "PNG'D" (kicked out of the U.S. as persona non grata) by the State Department. Mrkva, who had turned over to the FBI all of his receipts from the Czechs, admitted that spying "was hardly worthwhile" as a way to get rich quick. But the State Department showed its appreciation by giving him a raise from $9,267 to $10,619 a year...