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Word: personae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hammett's ideological stupidities for a time made him persona non grata with State Department libraries, but the old master of the "Black Mask" magazine wrote some of the finest non-political fairy tales before he vanished into obscurity. The Maltese Falcon is among his best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Maltese Falcon | 1/23/1957 | See Source »

...sending the note in the middle of an election campaign, he said, and especially by referring, by implication, to Stevenson's views on atomic testing, Bulganin had interfered in U.S. internal affairs in a way that, "if indulged in by an ambassador, would lead to his being declared persona non grata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Warsaw v. Moscow | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...ring," said the government spokesman, had reported to two British embassy first secretaries-John G. Gove and James B. Flux. The diplomats were given 72 hours to leave the country. (The British Foreign Office promptly declared that two officials of parallel status in Egypt's London embassy were persona non grata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spies & Ties | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Guatemala, showing in the strike? Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington last week: "There is at least an interesting coincidence in the fact that the strikes have occurred principally in an area to which the Guatemalan government recently sent three consuls who have subsequently been declared persona non grata by the government of Honduras because of their activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: General Strike | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Tugay's wealthy wife Emine, whose holdings included a palace in Cairo, many acres of rich Egyptian land and a bankful of Egyptian pounds, is Farouk's cousin. Ambassador Tugay complained publicly that Egypt's highhanded action was illegal. The Egyptian government countered by declaring him persona non grata as ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Unwanted | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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