Word: horsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dogs have good temperament: affectionate and quiet with humans, they become excited only at the sight of Swifty. But even before the moment of truth there are few horsey hijinks--just a subtle tension...
...staff, Gronouski swept out on a tour of Bucharest's nighttown with his wife, the Davises, and other embassy types. The group staggered to bed at 3:30 a.m., but was up within a few hours to fly on to Prague. There, Gronouski grilled Ambassador Outerbridge Horsey, popped in on a French industrial exhibition, sampled the brew at the Action Vat (a beer hall), prowled the heights of Hradcany Hill, and finished up with a 4 a.m. breakfast at the Jalta...
Outerbridge Horsey, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, didn't make big news in the conventional sense last week any more than did the State Department. But Washington's conduct of foreign affairs-and the conduct and competence of U.S. ambassadors-is more important than ever, as is made clear in this week's Essay on the intricate and much-maligned institution known as Foggy Bottom...
...psychological tests. About one-third hold advanced degrees. State makes an effort to get applicants from all over the U.S.; nonetheless, about three-fourths come from the Northeastern colleges in the blue blood tradition that in other years enlisted such foreign service pros as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Outerbridge Horsey and Ambassador to Ecuador Wymberley DeRenne Coerr. The average FSO is 42 years old, earns $13,000 a year, has served two-thirds of his career abroad, can speak at least one foreign language fluently...
Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration for the bag of naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch...