Word: rotarianism
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...Conservative civil servants learned to fear Templer's thin-lipped, tigerish sneer. Asians loved it when he looked a prevaricating Asian politician in the eye and said: "You're a stinker." Everywhere he went he was appalled by the indolent attitude of the Europeans. He told a Rotarian audience: "You see today how the Communists work . . . They seldom go to the races. They seldom go to dinner parties or cocktail parties. And they do not play golf." Even as he spoke, the Perak Derby was being run on the track at Ipoh, tin-mining capital of the worst...
...enthusiastic Rotarian, and he and Elsie have traveled quite a bit in South America and Europe. At an international Rotary meeting in Nice, France, Williams became a hero to his fellow Americans by discovering a restaurant that served Maxwell House coffee...
Labelling Nixen "a McCarthy with a veneer," Cherington continued, "He is the front guy, in a sense, for McCarthy and the other mid-Western super-Rotarian-reactionaries in the party...
Jovial George Stoddard (whose five children irreverently call him "Old Moon Face") rules his new domain with a mixture of Rotarian good humor and an insistence on standards He takes easily to picnics and poker but he also keeps a scholar's eye on teaching and research...
...horribly mixed up with the fiercer kind of Zionism ... No one would be more astonished or upset than the American Zionist if out of Zion were really to come forth the Law and Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He hopes that out of Zion will come forth good Rotarian Israelites and Hebrew-speaking hot-dog sellers...