Word: unbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, so their board bill is low. They produce new generations in about two weeks, multiplying rapidly in cream bottles stoppered with wads of gauze. They are easily come by; when a geneticist wants wild "genotype" flies, he puts a banana on the windowsill, and the genotypes come unbidden...
...presidential residence, Magsaysay ordered the gates thrown open to all comers. Invitations for an official lunch had been issued to 50; the palace staff had prudently prepared for 200 guests; 5,000 showed up. In an atmosphere reminiscent of Andrew Jackson's inaugural at Washington in 1829, unbidden guests pressed ten deep around Magsaysay's table, watched every mouthful as it disappeared into the presidential mouth. A half dozen strangers sat down at the First Lady's table. Still others surged around a heaped buffet which in five minutes stood bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...tourists venturing behind the Iron Curtain usually sneak or stumble in. The sneakers, like some who attended the recent Moscow trade conference, plan their visits without telling the State Department when they apply for passports. The stumblers usually don't realize the perils of touring unbidden in the Red domain; they think that what happened to those trapped by their jobs behind the Curtain-Correspondent William Oatis in Czechoslovakia (see PRESS), Businessman Robert Vogeler in Hungary and 60-odd Americans in Communist China-can't happen to casual tourists...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India habitually takes a lofty moral tone towards the West. In July, he set out, unbidden, to mediate the Korean war, in effect proposed that the U.S. bribe Moscow into calling off the North Koreans by admitting Red China into U.N. (TIME, July 24). When the U.S. refused, Nehru was indignant. Last week, when U.N. Mediator Sir Owen Dixon suggested that India make a compromise with Pakistan to end a three-year-old dispute over possession of the princely state of Kashmir...