Word: servante
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Witty, studious William Henry Hastie, 41, appointed by President Truman last week, has been dean of Washington's Howard University Law School for six years,' has long been a capable public servant. Born to a pharmacist father and schoolteacher mother in Knoxville, Tenn., he was graduated magna cum laude from Amherst, went on to Harvard Law School. There he became one of the few Negroes ever to serve on the Law Review, and one of Felix Frankfurter's Happy Hot Dogs...
...robot went on strike in Paris. This civil servant, a machine that tells the time over the telephone, did not ask for more; it simply got stuck. Over & over it told Parisians that the time was 9:04 a.m., thereby made many late for work...
...Eternal Footman is always there to hold his hat and snicker: "The servant gave me my coat and hat, and in a glow of self-satisfaction I walked out into the night. 'A delightful evening,' I reflected, 'the nicest kind of people. What I said about finance and philosophy impressed them; and how they laughed when I imitated a pig squealing...
...King pledged Canada's continued "best endeavors to meet the perilous situation which confronts Europe as winter sets in," members from all parties pounded their desks in agreement. Said one top Canadian civil servant: the U.S. action '"is a hell of a Christmas present to the people of Europe...
...person and his big ideals, embodied the great paradox confronting the U.S. in Latin America. The U.S. officially, and Braden personally, propose to uphold the U.S. idea of liberty in all the Western Hemisphere. Yet the U.S., as the greatest of western nations, and Braden as its servant, must recognize that sovereignty-especially sovereignty below the Rio Grande-is sometimes more precious than liberty...