Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage of an exodus from anarchy, a Pan American 707 flew from Tehran's Mehrabad Airport to Frankfurt and New York with 151 people aboard. On Saturday, under tight security provided by the Khomeini regime, chartered Pan Am 747s began the full-scale evacuation of Americans to Frankfurt and Rome...
...career diplomat for 32 years, Sullivan graduated from Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and joined the State Department in 1947 after a three-year stint in the Navy. His first overseas assignment, to Thailand, was followed by posts in Calcutta, Tokyo, Rome and The Hague. In 1962 he was tapped as deputy of the American delegation to the Laos neutrality conference in Geneva by then Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman,who admired ability "to see the other fellow's point of view...
...would be tragic for NATO if it were to lose its second biggest land army and its network of intelligence listening posts next to the Soviet Union. There are some ominous similarities between the situation in Turkey and the roots of the trouble in Iran, but, concludes TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn after a ten-day tour of Turkey, there are important differences. Wynn's analysis...
...worked as a $25-a-week movie critic, and then wandered into a job with an American organization distributing food and medical relief to postwar Europe. Thus, in 1922, the young Sonnenberg went back to Europe-armed this time with a salary and an expense account. He went to Rome, London and Paris; "the significance of having a man draw your bath and lay out your clothes," he told The New Yorker a quarter of a century later, "burst upon me like a revelation ... I think it was while feeding the people in Odessa, paradoxically, that I first decided...
...intentions: "An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along." As a conservative convert to Roman Catholicism, Waugh decried the aims of Vatican II, the un-Latinizing of the Mass and papal excursions too far from Rome...