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Word: constantinus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...that his people be taken "under the great Queen Victoria's blanket." Over the years, Mantsebo successfully parried each attempt to edge her out, but last week a new, more dangerous threat was on the scene: a tall, natty young Oxford student just back from England. He was Constantinus Bereng Seeiso, Mantsebo's stepson and legitimate claimant to the paramount chieftaincy. Bereng was only two years old when his father, Paramount Chief, died in 1940, and Mantsebo, the senior wife, took over as regent. Now he had come of age, and was demanding his throne immediately so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASUTOLAND: Horn of Trouble | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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