Word: purlieus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patronage, not untinged with envy: "I don't agree with everything he writes, but in this particular case the guy's really get something." Mr. Hammarskjold, Mr. Eisenhower. Mr. Dulles, and Mr. Yovicsin receive their salaries in the same kind of coin. We all criticize them (from the safe purlieus of the Hayes-Bick) and preach of what we would de in their brain-puzzling jobs. But they are the men with guts enough to try. If they succeed in then chosen work they become heroes; if they fan they are forgotten overnight. But at least they have done their...
...people from the People's Republic are all dedicated revolutionaries, but they are also well-born intellectuals, educated elitists who have traveled widely and are no strangers to the purlieus of diplomacy. All speak English. The head of the delegation, tall, lean, youthful-looking Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, 57, can switch when necessary to French or Japanese or Russian or German, the last of which he acquired (along with a Ph.D. in philosophy) at Tübingen University in the 1930s...