Word: vip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more so since the 1983 incident in Rangoon, Burma, when several South Korean Cabinet ministers were killed by a bomb supposedly set by agents from Communist North Korea. Added to that was the guards' obvious animosity toward Kim. Explaining that Kim would not be passing through a VIP area at the airport, one agent told reporters bluntly, "Kim no VIP...
Members of the elite have extensive privileges: high salaries, good apartments, dachas, cars with chauffeurs, special railway cars and accommodations, VIP treatment at airports, resorts and hospitals off limits to outsiders, special schools for their children, access to stores selling consumer goods and food at reduced prices. They live far removed from the common man and, indeed, have to go out of their way if they wish to rub elbows with the less exalted. The highest group in the nomenklatura is separated from most citizens by a barrier as psychologically imposing as the Great Wall of China. This class constitutes...
...interview Ron Reagan, the President's son, on the Republican Convention floor under the signpost of the New York delegation. But his interviewee, it turned out, was many yards away, under the standard of New York's alternates. Wallace ran to the Reagan seats in the VIP box, then circled the floor. By the time the misunderstanding was discovered, the "window" of open air time had passed...
...remained neutral throughout the primaries, Kennedy telephoned Mondale with an offer to fly to Minnesota and announce his backing. Mondale invited Kennedy to spend Sunday night at his home in North Oaks. Just before boarding a jetliner at Boston's Logan International Airport, Kennedy called Hart from a VIP lounge to review the Coloradan's bargaining position, making notes on a yellow legal pad. After arriving in North Oaks, Kennedy urged his host to compromise on a couple of unresolved points. "We're getting close, but we're not there yet," said Mondale over cigars...
...time foreign correspondent and then managing editor of the New York Times not to mention the husband of Margaret Truman Daniel. Harry S. Truman's daughter Daniel appears to have known, or at least met, multitudes of VIP's from around the world. And he spends nearly 250 pages relaying anecdotes and recollections of almost all of them. What Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wore or what King Farouk said is about as serious as this book becomes. It would be downright irritating if it weren't so enjoyable...