Word: servante
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...passing of the McCarthy menace. We felt, however, that precautions must be taken for the future: Eisenhower's provision for an impartial board to handle security hearings was considered an improvement, but youthful and quite justifiable idealism still yearns for direct confrontation of witness by the accused civil servant...
Attitude: A perfect Stalin-Khrushchev party servant, a dedicated Communist and agile follower of the weaving party line, who has said: "From our point of view, it is as inevitable as the night follows day that the capitalist system will be replaced by the socialist system...
Changing Ways. Times have changed in India since the days when the Nizam was absolute autocrat of Hyderabad, could dress in encrusted brocade and im port whole jazz bands from England to play his favorite tunes, Whispering and I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. As a civil servant now, subservient to the New Delhi government, he has to struggle along on a tax-free stipend of only $1,000,000 and an expense account of half as much, as autocratic democratic head of the state of Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching...
Short Order. In Baltimore, accused of creating a disturbance outside the accident ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Adam Zamencki blurted to a cop. "You are nothing but a public servant and I want service," was served a $25 fine for disorderly conduct...
...Museum Piece. At the same time, he justified Bhutan's continued isolation: "Almost 98% of Bhutanese own their own farms. If we opened our country to foreign aid now, India, and perhaps even Red China, would rush in, overwhelm us and reduce our people to a servant class...