Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a reporter tried to get in a question. Freeman cut him off imperiously: "Wait a minute, let me finish. I'm making my speech; then you can make yours." He charged the Republicans with "inconsistency" and "total irresponsibility," scalded them for criticizing him as a "czar" who sought "regimentation and centralization. Well, the same people turned around on two different days and voted for a sugar bill and not for a farm bill. And the biggest piece of centralized regimentation in American agriculture is the sugar bill." Furthermore, cried Freeman, "they voted against a farm program that would...
Eggs with Hens Inside. He produced everything from an image of Buddha in nephrite (a form of jade) for the King of Siam to many of the great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs...
...which a British-French expeditionary force, after many a blunder, frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire. Correspondent Marx, then an impoverished freelance journalist scribbling in a London slum, looked beyond the surface meaning of the war, beyond the imperious figure of the Czar, and saw a "barbarous" power embarked on a campaign of world conquest...
...terror worked, and Marx railed against the fears of the West. "Counting on the cowardice and apprehensions of the Western Powers," he wrote in an article about Czar Nicholas I, "he bullies Europe, and pushes his demands as far as possible . . . If, at the outset, [England and France] had proved that bluster and swagger could not impose on them, the Autocrat would have for them a very different feeling from that contempt which must now animate his bosom...
...typical of yesterday's Africa. He was born in 1907 in a seedy flophouse in Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, run by his parents. Michael and Leah Welensky. A huge, hard-drinking Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland. Michael Welensky cut off his trigger finger to avoid conscription by the Czar's army, sought his fortune as a fur trader in the U.S. before settling in Salisbury after the diamond rush. Son Roy (his real first name is Raphael) quit school at 14; after a series of odd jobs ranging from baker to bartender, he became a railroad fireman...