Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Immigrant Bob Wagner, and New York's Republican Attorney General Jacob Koppel Javits, a son of Immigrant Morris Javits. They have been nominated by their parties to run for the place of retiring Democratic Senator Herbert H. Lehman-and the Wagner-Javits pursuit of New York's polyglot vote involves more nuances, more subtleties, more campaigning and more voters than any other of this year's 36 contests for control of the U.S. Senate...
There were weightier considerations, however, and eventually they won out. Wagner, immensely gregarious, has wide appeal in polyglot New York (a Catholic of German-Irish extraction, he married a Quaker girl, Susan Edwards, in 1942). If, as the Democrats' only proved vote-getter, he turned down the party now-when its need is so great-he would run the risk that its affronted leaders would deny him the nomination in 1958. On the other hand, if he lost this year, he could return to his mayor's job and still be assured another try at the Senate. With...
During the Indo-Chinese war, when the countryside was invaded by African troops and by a Foreign Legion containing more Germans than French, the garrison towns were filled with a polychromic and polyglot collection of youngsters born of every shade of father. The Eurasian population quadrupled, and a new word had to be coined: Africasians. Many girls with catholic tastes produced several children of mixed blood-each one a different color. Simply by bringing her baby for a cursory examination, a Vietnamese mother could get a "technical certificate of white race" that entitled the youngster to free care and education...
...Swiss capital of Bern last week, plainclothesmen roamed the hotels, and scores of policemen accompanied by equally alert police dogs stood guard over the picturesque old town hall. Inside the town hall, which had been temporarily transformed into a courtroom, still more police kept a sharp eye on a polyglot crowd composed of some 120 newsmen, dozens of Iron Curtain refugees, and "observers" from Communist Rumania, China and Yugoslavia...
...mayor of one of the world's most polyglot cities, New York's Robert F. Wagner decided it would be a good idea -and possibly good politics-to make a brisk good-will tour of some of the mother countries of his constituents. Most of the homelands were happy to have him (all but France agreed to foot his expenses), and early this month the hail-fellow mayor and his blonde wife were off. By last week the Wagners were the most talked-about Americans abroad, from Dublin to Tel Aviv...