Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk to wade through a mountain of documents to acquaint himself with the job he will hold for seven years. But since outgoing President Vincent Auriol is still in office, Coty stays out of sight at all diplomatic ceremonies so no one will be confused by double-headed protocol. Last week France's Presidents, old and new, worked together on another matter: to keep the government of Premier Joseph Laniel on its feet for the Four Power Conference at Berlin...
...Europe, as a corporal, he literally ran the education and information services for a combat general who was boss on paper. High level conferences saw generals and admirals ducking out of closed rooms to get advice from the thin, be-spectacled enlisted man who waited in the hall because protocol would not allow him inside...
Brauer could be brusque; lagging subordinates heard him roar: "You are so stupid." He told citizens of his city, which was old when New York was still Indian territory: "In America they do it thus and so." He wrathfully shoved aside the time-consuming forms and protocol of German bureaucracy that he called "the new totalitarianism of our time." He irritated his own Social Democratic Party by publicly lambasting "shallow, commonplace Socialism, exhausting itself in theory...
...reasonable to suppose that, by the end of a Washington week protocol-heavy with presidential banquets, reviews, wreath-layings and graceful speeches, their conquest of the U.S. capital will be complete. In fact, a healthy respect for the charms of the invaders went into the timing of their invitation: they were invited to make their visit after the foreign aid bill had been passed and while Congress was not in session, for fear that somehow Frederika might beguile the lawmakers into giving Greece more than its share...
...Iranian protocol officer who deals with the Russians in Teheran felt sure he recognized the voice at the other end of the phone line. The caller said that he was the Soviet embassy's political officer. "You should know," he went on, "that our ambassador attempted suicide." Then the line went dead. The protocol officer, still convinced it was the voice of the Soviet political officer with whom he had talked dozens of times, phoned back. But the political officer denied making the call, denied the suicide story as well, hung up. In spite of the denials, the report...