Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting Secretary Louis Johnson was ready, willing and panting to ascend the vacant throne. One summer afternoon the telephone from the White House rang...
...There are always two kinds of paintings," Matisse went on. "First there is the kind that introduces something new. Such paintings begin by being worthless but eventually they ascend the heights of value. Then there are those which are accepted at the outset because they offer nothing new but simply flatter the public taste. They are later found to be worthless...
...case, the baby would probably ascend the throne as George VII (the present King was known as Albert when he was a prince). Ebullient Princess Margaret pointed out the only possible drawback to the new name. "Now," she said, "I suppose they'll call me Charlie's Aunt...
Above three representatives prepare to ascend the slopes at North Conway to ply Radcliffe's new pastime...
George II, King of the Hellenes, was back in Greece last week to ascend for the third time his country's throne.* Although he is a third-generation Greek king by birth, the King (full name: George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glücksburg) still speaks Greek with a heavy foreign accent...