Word: narcissus
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...Foreign Minister since 1940, resigned last week as the result of a campaign of backstage intrigue and a storm of public criticism. Rivals within the Mexican foreign service, notably Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambassador to the U.S., had long been gunning for 6-ft., spruce Ezequiel, sometimes called "the black Narcissus" because of his darkish skin and elegant attire. Other political opponents may have undermined him with President Avila Camacho, hoping to head him off as a candidate in next year's presidential election...
Author Godden (Black Narcissus) saves the mellow, memory-filled house for the family by having Rolls buy it as a present for his niece Grizel. Then a Nazi bomb caves in one of its walls, crushing out Rolls's life. Dying, he summons the spirit of Lark for a last talk. "Those [past] . . . actions were like thorns and wounds in our minds," says Lark. "But that is all over." "I love you, Lark," cries Rolls. "I love you. How much I love...
Irina Baronova, popular White Russian pin-up girl of the Red Army, ballerina of the Manhattan musical Follow the Girls, had a new narcissus named for her by the Horticultural Society of New York...
...stabilization, a general economic overhauling. The U.S. needed a powerful demonstration of hemisphere solidarity. President Manuel Avila Camacho needed a big deal to back up his strong anti-Axis stand, his appeals for U.S. collaboration. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, suave Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, known as Narciso Negro (black narcissus) for his elegance, needed a triumph to swing Mexico's foreign policy back to close relations with Britain and the U.S. One thing stood in the way-oil. Between the $175,000,000 at which the oil companies are reported to have valued their seized properties...
...Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic "calm and open stare." "So," says Author Koeves, "Narcissus might have looked into the clear surface of a limpid stream...