Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of thousand police to set up a blockade on all roads leading into the embattled republic, in the hope of starving out the Communists ("Italy will not send her tanks into San Marino," proclaimed Italy's Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella righteously). The U.S. sent its young consul splashing through the mud from Florence, Italy to the foundry, to offer recognition to the democratic government. He lingered long enough to join in a toast in brandy, served in cracked glasses set on a cardboard flap torn from a packing case...
Ulich was presented the Commander's Cross of the Merit at the Faculty Club by Werner Von Holleben, German consul in Boston, on behalf of the German nation...
...strength of this yarn, reinforced by the charge that one of the reactionaries "carried a false beard in his hand," the Syrian government next day expelled Stone, 32, onetime Library of Congress employee who has never even been in Guatemala in his life. Also expelled: a U.S. vice consul, and-though nobody had even mentioned his name before-the U.S. military attache...
...young at 46 to be urgently in need of one, Composer-Librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to one of his own scores: "Last night while he was having dinner, he suddenly vanished without a whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that...
Warren's appointment to the Supreme Court is Eisenhower's biggest blunder and the most inept since Caligula named his horse a consul...