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...their pent-up differences-though only a few hours later, Fulbright's committee coldly excised some of the conditions and funds that the President had demanded as essential to his foreign-aid program. In fact, the Arkansas Senator is as far as ever from a reconciliation with his quondam friend and colleague...
...Tony did most of the asking. When a girl reporter told Meg that she worked for a national chain, the Princess caught on at once: "Dotted hither and yon, eh?" One chap answered Tony's query by saying he was retired. "I'm retired too," said Quondam Photographer Armstrong-Jones-though in fact he still moonlights camera assignments. Tony interrogated every press photographer he could buttonhole about equipment and technique, and lost no opportunity to mention a new book on British artists that includes 370 of his photographs. Only once did Meg make an overt concession to fatigue...
...crisis threatening to escalate, Princess Grace rushed back from a shopping trip to Paris with her two children and a poodle, and 30 "war" correspondents flocked into the principality. In the U.S., meanwhile, Rainier found a champion in the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, a quondam Riviera rover now based in Washington. Rainier should bar a Negro student from the Monaco High School, suggested Buchwald, so that the U.S. would have an excuse to send in federal marshals. "When it seems that they can't handle the situation," he added, "we would have to send...
...favorito writers). But in Eliot's play the fun has just begun when Alcestis--Lavinia returns from the dead. Lavinia and her husband realize that time's only issue has been grief and anxiety, and that their marriage in its present state cannot last. Celia Coplestone, Edward's quondam mistress (apparently considered to be another aspect of Alcestis) decides that she is also far from mental health...
...facet Arthurus Rex quondam Rex que futurus...