Word: liaisoning
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Seattleites were pleased but slightly puzzled by Soviet Naval Lieutenant Nikolai G. Redin. The dark, handsome, 29-year-old lieutenant did his work as a Soviet Purchasing Commission liaison officer without a word about Marx, Engels, commissars or strikes. He was polite, played squash, drank bourbon and once enlivened a New Washington Hotel stag party by dropping to his heels and doing the "kazatski." After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them...
...more than anything else, it had disclosed the improvisations of U.S. foreign policy and how ill prepared the Army & Navy had been to back up the strong talk of the State Department. (Said Frank Knox to Admiral Richardson: "We have never been ready but we have always won.") Where liaison did exist between departments, it had been almost by accident. Army, Navy, State and White House had gone their various wayward ways, until the climax of mistakes on that Sunday morning on Oahu...
...followers at the Soviet's All-Union Institute of Selection & Genetics claim to have disestablished tomatoes, potatoes, wheat and barley. Their conservatism vanquished, the plants could be grown in almost any part of the mighty Soviet Union: e.g., a tomato was deeply shaken by a grafted liaison with a nightshade. It became so enterprising that, sown outdoors in May, it ripened its fruits before the early frost of Moscow...
...happened to his doltish M. Jourdain, who was already an outrageous enough butt. Everybody swindled and snickered at him-the dancing masters and fencing masters hired to teach him the graces; the count who was to present him at court; the marquise with whom he craved a modish liaison. But Moliére's butt-who suddenly learned with rapture that he had been speaking prose all his life-was a passably solid character. When Zany Clark gets through with him, M. Jourdain has not a shred of character left: he is merely a comic named Bobby Clark...
Operating under the Counsellor for Veterans, Wilbur J. Bender, and the managerial direction of David D. Hathaway, the new bureau will effect a liaison between property owners and apartment seekers...