Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from being representative of American democracy in action, the [State] Department is a honeycomb of bureaucratic regimentation and protocol...
Queen Victoria. For most well-born Victorians, says Ponsonby, the Victorian era was a "serene, unhurried existence." For the old Queen's courtiers, it was a rat race. Protocol ruled, for example, that when the Queen took an airing in her pony chair she must meet nobody on the way, and as nobody in the household could foretell what route she intended to take, her stately advance over the royal gravel was marked by the incessant scuttling of courtiers racing for cover...
...throwbacks to his days of military rank. By military protocol the senior officer is always last to enter a plane, boat or automobile and the first to leave...
...treaty protocol to bring West Germany into NATO...
...announcement, coming the same week that Juin assumed command of NATO's European land forces, set SHAPE'S protocol officers to biting their nails. With his marshal's baton and seven-starred, oak-and laurel-leaf-encrusted kept Juin will outrank his new boss, four-star General Ridgway (who is also outranked by another subordinate, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery). Probable solution: a fifth star for Ridgway...