Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phillips will join her and watch her ride in the European equestrian championships. The normally obligatory visit to Lenin's tomb in Moscow has been dropped from Philip's itinerary, perhaps in quiet recognition of the fact that he is a cousin once removed of the late Czar Nicholas II, who was murdered with his family on orders from the Lenin-led revolutionary government...
...after "rog-ering" his wife in a London closet, he departs for the Crimea, where-you have guessed it already-he leads the charge of the Light Brigade (without meaning to), falls prisoner to Cossacks, escapes from the Russian steppes by sled, and, after many a contretemps, foils the Czar's plan to overrun India by helping a grisly band of Transcaucasians to blow up two boatloads of gunpowder...
...Califano, the jolly domestic czar for Lyndon Johnson, was in a state of near ecstasy helping to sculpt programs on housing, civil rights, health and education...
...into a friend of Melvin Laird's [the new White House domestic czar] out West, and he felt Laird would be cut in a couple of months," said a Washington lawyer...
...squeezed people living on pensions or subsisting in marginal jobs, European incomes generally are still rising faster than living costs. Consequently, several European governments are talking a stern fight against inflation, but their actions have usually shown more caution than vigor. In Switzerland, for example, a so-called price czar empowered to order rollbacks has acted just once since his appointment in January...