Word: arched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George, be a king!" his mother commanded him, and no one can say that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, has not done his best. The first English-born monarch since Queen Anne died more than 60 years ago, George proudly proclaimed in his first speech from the throne that he "gloried in the name of Briton."* Yet paradoxically, his patriotism, combined with the dogmatic, unyielding temperament he has shown since childhood, has torn apart the British Empire he inherited 16 years...
...custom stale her infinite variety ... other women cloy the appetites they feed; but she makes hungry/ Where most she satisfies." Even the vows that she and Antony swear in lovers' defiance of the world are thunderously imperial. Says Antony: "Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall!" and Cleopatra echoes, "Melt Egypt into Nile...
...would've been more at home if I went to Harvard now," Robert C. Garrett '71, a reporter for the Boston Herald-American, said last week. "I don't consider myself arch-conservative, but I was concerned by the lax attitude in terms of education. A lot of the anti-war, counter-cultural protests rubbed off a bad way. People had the feeling that school wasn't that important...
...championship game, it certainly had to rank with the now almost mythic clashes between arch-rivals Maryland and John Hopkins. In recent years, however, Hopkins has more often than not folded against Maryland--a fate Cornell resisted. In the overtime Saturday, Maryland's Terry Kimball scored in the first 34 seconds, but instead of playing scared, the Big Red went on to score four unanswered goals and win the national championship...
...should ask the cannibal, the arch-cannibal, his imperial majesty, the shah of shahs, the Light of the Aryans. Or you should ask Kim Roosevelt, the former CIA agent who has now become a go-between in the sale of arms to the shah...