Word: ascends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only do they wish to defend you against dangers lurking along the way; they are also active at your side with a word of encouragement to your souls as you strive to ascend higher and higher to closeness to God through Christ...
...herself an Atonist, and she spots Baby Moses in the bulrushes, where his captive Levite mother has left him as a sacrifice to the water-snake god. Enekhas-Amon takes the infant, reappears at court months later pretending that the child is hers. One day, she dreams. Moses will ascend the throne and restore Aton to his sole supremacy...
...primary purpose of a queen is to have children. In Moslem kingdoms such as Iran, where only a man can ascend the throne, it is of even greater primacy that they be male...
...dabbling in mathematics on the side, he had by 1922 already stumbled on the secret of letting the line speak for itself. Set against monochrome backgrounds, it could float as joyously as a ribbon on a June breeze, take on the tension of coiled springs, jam up in anger, ascend in triumph or struggle behind the heavy, heavy black grillwork of despair. But for decades Hartung's new-found language spoke only to himself and a few fellow artists. Between 1922 and 1946 he sold only three paintings. Says he: "I don't know how I managed...
...virtually every royal house, regnant or deposed, in Europe are related to Europe's most prospering crown, Britain's. Among them is Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, who is descended from King James I's granddaughter, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, and thereby legally entitled to ascend the British throne -provided that the 60-odd heirs who precede him all die. Last week, after a year of litigation, the British court of appeal ruled that Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication, the court...