Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Miguel Aleutian, a broad-minded politician, found him a congenial soul. Thousands of other Mexicans were flattered to find that O'Dwyer spoke Spanish (learned as a youth when he studied for the priesthood at Salamanca, Spain), that he liked bullfights, and was a charming and democratic host...
...employee whose country undergoes a change in government (as in Czechoslovakia when the Communists took over) should be allowed to keep his U.N. job, even if his own government objects, provided that he adheres to the laws of "the host country." Such employees, of course, should refrain from activities against their own government. This covers a particularly urgent question facing Lie, whose staff includes several anti-Communists from Iron Curtain countries, anti-Tito Yugoslavs and anti-Perón Argentines, whose governments would like to have them replaced by people of their own choice...
...defined system. And beyond the evils inherent in any censorial set-up, the one in the Commonwealth presents the further evil of uncertain boundaries. The limits of the system are almost impossible to define partially because the system is largely a secret one, and partially because a host of small pressure groups and private individuals wander around the field...
This is my major complaint, then. Fischer has advanced a stimulating thesis along with a host of facts which at best seem incidental. It is the lack of a compelling connection which disappointed me, for what's the use of poring over dry details if they don't lead anywhere...
...minute visit to his great-grandmother Queen Mary, confined to Marlborough House with a cold, then back to the palace and the big moment: blowing the candles and cutting cake for a dozen young friends. Along with the cakes were jellies and blancmange (which the host refused to eat because they were "too slippery"). After tea in the gold-and-white ballroom, the party adjourned to Charles's favorite playground, the palace corridors, and his pet game, hide & seek...