Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when his American tutor, Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, called him Jimmy. The lesson learned that day seemed very much with Akihito last week as he journeyed across the Pacific on his way to the coronation in London. Now 19, diminutive (5 ft. 4 in. 114 Ibs.) and dignified (when protocol demanded), the Prince, aboard the President Wilson, shook off his six chamberlains, mingled easily with fellow passengers, dined at the captain's table, ate American dishes, held a Martini at cocktail parties (but was not seen to drink it), played pingpong and mah-jongg with pretty American and Chinese...
...focal point for public and world attention. He is a slave to his office, being obliged to serve his country without cease at all hours and every day of the year. He can have very little privacy. If he has young children, they are largely governed by protocol and cannot enjoy the freedom of the White House as they would a normal home...
...Early arranged the party to honor Taft, who had just lost his second campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Taft rose to his feet and told his friends: "It isn't the honor or the glory of the office, the yacht and the White House and all the protocol. I believe deeply in my principles, and I want to put them into effect. The office of President has the power and the prestige to put those principles into effect. That's why I keep running...
...first time in years, he chatted pleasantly-a task that is far from easy for a man whose infrequent smiles seem to make his face ache. When the new U.S. ambassador, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, arrived in Moscow to take up his post, Molotov sent his chief of protocol to the airport to shake his hand. The same day he talked for 49 minutes with the British ambassador, and asked after Foreign Secretary Eden's gallbladder complaint. With such small gestures, and vague hints of bigger ones to come, did Vyacheslav Molotov peddle his latest bill of goods marked "Peace...
Among the principal members of the Adenauer party will be Walter Hallstein, Vollrath Freiherr von Maltzan, Heinz L. Krekeler, Heinz Heinrich von Herwarth, Feliz von Eckardt, Alexander Boker, and John F. Simmons, State Department chief of Protocol...