Word: dom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a night in the country Churchill made his headquarters at the British Embassy's Stary Dom house. His first meeting with Stalin lasted three hours and 40 minutes. The descendant of the fighting Dukes of Marlborough, trained in the sportsmanlike traditions of British colonial warfare and the superficially polite exchanges of British politics, finally faced the Georgian peasant who learned about politics in years of underground conspiracy and bloody revolution...
...after a tight squeak with elephants, floods, striking porters, Beryl Markham decided to fly to London. A year in London taught her, for the first time in her busy life, how "to discuss the bore dom of being alive with any intelligence." So it was only a question of time until she would escape from boredom through action. She escaped by flying the Atlantic...
...Prince Regent Pedro received a batch of dispatches from Portugal telling of oppressive measures planned for the colony. Then & there Prince Pedro uttered what Brazilians now call the Grito de Ypiranga: "Independence or death!" He revolted against his father the Emperor, declared Brazil independent, became its first monarch, Dom Pedro I. Although Brazil later overthrew his son, Dom Pedro II, and became a republic, Brazilians this week celebrated the 119th anniversary of their independence with as little animosity toward Portugal as U.S. citizens now feel toward Great Britain on the Fourth of July...
...Peter the Great's, was in breaking with his country's past. Inönii, coming from truly Oriental forebears, is satisfied to let the Westernization jell. He will never be dignified by such a statue as the one of Kamâl Atatürk which dom inates the Golden Horn, showing the great Kamal in a dinner jacket with cuffs on the trousers. Yet when Inb'nu. soon after taking office, had to decide whether to ally Turkey with Britain and France or whether to attempt Oriental isolation, he chose the European alliance...
...Died. Dom José Telles da Gama, Marquis of Niza and Count of Vidigueira, 64, last direct descendant of the great Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama; in Lisbon...