Word: officialdom
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...raging two-hour argument over a lost vaccination certificate; he detested Manhattan's bitter January cold, despite all that U.S. friends such as Nelson Rockefeller could do to thaw him out. He went to Washington to pay homage at the Lincoln Memorial, was ignored by U.S. officialdom. "Lincoln," said Quadros later, "was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception...
...tribal robe and bow tie, proclaiming, "You too can become an African expert in three weeks." That Governor Williams learned little from his grand tour is evident in a brief article in Cambridge 38's special edition on Africa. Williams relies on the sonorous, empty phrases of officialdom--"African countries need economic assistance designed to meet national objectives and to create national stability"--to convey his random impressions of the continent...
...triumph two years ago, 45,000 Cubans have fled to the U.S. Of these, 2,300 have arrived by what the U.S. Immigration Service officially describes as "unusual transport"-hijacking yachts, diverting passenger planes at gunpoint or jumping off Cuban vessels transiting the Panama Canal. But even U.S. officialdom was prepared to admit last week that "unusual transport" hardly seemed adequate to cover the case of Jesus Rafael Saavedra...
Expired Visa. The blow did not fall until Pasternak died last May. Soviet officialdom's first threatening move was both petty and spiteful. Irina, by now a pretty girl in her early twenties, had become engaged to a French student attending school in Moscow. Several weeks after Pasternak's death, the authorities fixed a date for the wedding-ten days after the boy's visa expired. Then he was refused a renewal of his visa and forced to leave Russia...
...experiment worked fine, but when the New York Times finally broke the story six months later, U.S. authorities were disturbed at the "breach of security" involved. And even after most details of Project Argus became public knowledge, the exact times of the blasts were never announced-apparently because Washington officialdom hoped the Russians could not get this information by themselves...