Word: protocol
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...workers walked out briefly, then returned quietly and took up their tools again. Such was the troubled surface mood. But beneath the surface in Germany lay a deeper tension. It tightened suddenly last week when the British intercepted and published a detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot-"Protocol M"-and pinned responsibility on the Belgrade Cominform...
That night he was met in Washington's Union Station by handsome Stanley Woodward, White House and State Department chief of protocol, who welcomes every new chief of mission to Washington. Three days later Panyushkin presented his credentials to Acting Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett, conversed twelve minutes with him. Facing reporters once again, he was asked about the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. "It is a duty of all ambassadors," he replied, through an interpreter, "to try to have normal reciprocal relations...
...Truman kept smiling, but his wife was tuckered out. Gamely they had pumped more than 1,200 hands of foreign diplomats, U.S. Cabinet officers, Congressmen and their wives. Last week's annual White House diplomatic reception-the second since the war-was, as usual, peacock-splendid, stiff with protocol and hardly hilarious...
...Island, studied law at night and began pointing toward politics. In 1916 he ran for Congress as a Republican in a Tammany-controlled district, and amazed everyone except himself by getting elected. In World War I, he was a famous flyer, noted for his baggy uniform, his impatience of protocol and his patriotic speeches to huge Italian audiences...
...delicatessen on the way up." The Chinese delegation was arriving at LaGuardia field, and an "Arrival" aide hurried out to meet them, only to find the plane landed and the dignitaries indistinguishably entangled with 55 welcoming Chinese. From another office in the Empire State Building, redheaded U.N. Protocol Chief Jehan de Noue darted constantly to LaGuardia to meet more distinguishable arrivals...