Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of room." But the government seemed more inclined to accept Premier Adams' interpretation of the incident. Last week the External Affairs department sent a note to Barbados expressing "the profound apologies of the government for any inconvenience or slight suffered by the Premier." Said Chief of Protocol H.F.B. Feaver: "We deplore any display of racial discrimination...
...week smiling and marveling at the sights of New York harbor. At week's end, after a schedule of shopping, sightseeing and partying that would have staggered women half her age, she was still going strong. Everywhere she appeared, she managed to break through the stiff cordon of protocol with her smile, her poise, or her dazzling jewels. On every hand the comment was the same: "Isn't she lovely...
With both powers sticking fast to their stories, the U.S. had no choice but to follow diplomatic protocol and ask exit visas for Mrs. Sommerlatte and her husband...
...afternoon, the ministers of the 14 NATO powers gathered. "As a matter of courtesy" they invited Chancellor Adenauer to attend the session as an observer. While Adenauer watched silently from a corner of the table, the council swiftly ground through its business. It approved a protocol inviting West Germany to join NATO and a resolution giving the Supreme Allied Commander Europe added powers to station troops and establish supply bases wherever he chose. Mendès haggled politely over what military items Germany was to manufacture, but dropped his expected demand that German forces be "integrated" at the division level...
Every Thursday afternoon, protocol permitting, a six-year-old American boy named Stephen Rutter will be excused from his private school on London's fashionable Eaton Square long enough to go to Buckingham Palace and obey, by approximation, an admonition of the late Mayor Big Bill Thompson of Chicago, to wit: "Punch King George in the snoot." The target will be George V's great grandson, Prince Charles, heir to the throne of Britain. Stephen, the son of a second secretary of the U.S. embassy, was picked last week to be a sparring partner for five-year...