Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norman had risen to the top rank of Canada's professional diplomatic corps. He was serving as acting permanent delegate to the United Nations in New York when his name cropped up in a hearing before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, then headed by Nevada Democrat Pat McCarran. Testifying on Communist infiltration in the U.S., German-born Karl Wittfogel, onetime professor of Chinese history at Columbia University and a professed ex-Communist, said that in 1938 he and Norman, then a student in the Japanese department at Columbia, had attended a Communist study group on Cape Cod. Wittfogel...
...their second morning in Rome Nixon and wife Pat headed for the Vatican, as Italian photographers chased them along shouting: "Hey, Mr. Nixon, look this way!" Quaker Nixon had a 25-minute private session with 81-year-old Pope Pius XII, then the rest of his party joined him to hear the Pope read a personal message to the Americans...
There was time, too, for informal gaiety in Rome. St. Patrick's Day was Pat's birthday (44), and in a large sitting room of the Grand Hotel she had a party, puffed out 21 candles, cut a giant four-tier cake, received a basket of roses from Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, and from the Nixon press party an ivory-handled umbrella...
...Vice President remarked : "I recognized you from your picture on the cover of TIME . . . That was a mighty fine story about you." The two promised to meet again in Washington, and Nixon went about the vice-presidential business of winning African friends for the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, With Pat & Dick in Africa...
That afternoon, to savor the exotic culture of the back-country people, the Nixons drove 20 miles from Accra to the hill town of Aburi. The colorfully dressed tribesmen assigned Nixon a mahogany throne. Pat, dandling a native infant on her knee, sat beside him on a smaller throne, watching as the tribal drums thrummed and the natives danced their age-old rituals...