Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine Egyptian diplomats. "The curtain is raised," trumpeted Baghdad's daily Al Thawra. "Abdel Nasser is revealed as the great plotter, enemy, dictator, and shedder of blood. Those who proclaim pan-Arabism and raise Abdel Nasser to the rank of prophet have been exposed. Gamal Abdel Nasser has sent arms to Mosul for fighting because he wanted to annex Iraq and add it to his kingdom...
Michiko was sent to Tokyo's Sacred Heart School, where the names of the girls read like a roll call of Japan's wealthiest families, instead of to the Gakushuin (Peers' School), which is reserved mainly for the descendants of the blue-blooded kazoku families. Sacred Heart was a congenial place, long on over-politeness. Comments a Sacred Heart graduate: "The aim was to shape us all into spotless and expensive pieces of jewelry, and Michiko got the same treatment as the rest." Though the school was Roman Catholic, Michiko remained a Buddhist...
...arranged with a view to a possible match. One candidate is said to have been the son of a soap-company president; reportedly he backed away, declaring Michiko's personality "too cold." Michiko seems to have been drawn to a Japanese diplomat and was disappointed when he was sent to a post in Europe. He wrote her long, graceful letters dealing mostly with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, at a time when she was reading Steinbeck and Faulkner. Asked Michiko crossly: "Does he think I am still a child...
Recently, the State Department sent a squad of informal poll takers padding through the marble corridors of the House and Senate Office Buildings. Results of the poll: little or no objection to the quota system...
...Pope Sent You." During the past fortnight, his audiences have included Tibetan Lama Cohimed Rigdzin, two football teams, the children of Vatican City employees, the Italian National Blood Donors Association, Pennsylvania's "flying grandfather," Max Conrad, Mount Everest's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Fiat Auto Co. President Vittorio Valletta, the U.S. 686th Air Force band and choir (which serenaded him), the officers and men of his own Swiss Guard, and 30 of the carabinieri and motorcycle police who escort his car around Rome...