foreign service
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Still, when their husbands die, ostensibly in a plane crash, Bea and Twila are grief-stricken — they have lost not only their husbands but their careers as foreign service wives.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026
At one point in February, Marocco tried ordering the immediate return of foreign service officers stationed abroad.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025
Cynthia Iglesias Guven worked at the Agriculture Department since 1998, living around the world as a foreign service officer and eventually taking a senior job in Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025
"I see foreign service officers that have spent their entire lives serving - a large part of it overseas - and the sacrifices they made," they said.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025
His appointment as staff-surgeon to our troops on foreign service marked the six intervening years before he settled down to practise in London.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
