Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emperor Haile Selassie last week celebrated a great day in a career that has known many ups & downs. With golden scissors, Ethiopia's King of Kings, Lion of Judah snipped a ribbon and then drove triumphantly across a frontier to add to his domain the former Italian colony of Eritrea, which the Italians had carved out of old Ethiopia in the late 19th century...
...castle of Bluebeard's soul, is consumed with curiosity about the seven doors to his subconscious. She coaxes his keys from him, one by one opens the doors to discover 1) his torture chamber, 2) his armory, 3) his treasury, 4) his secret garden, 5) his broad domain, 6) his vale of tears and, finally, 7) his three previous wives, alive, but all in trancelike states...
Waiting Game. But such towns as Grand Junction show few signs of booming like the West's gold-mining towns of yore. Since most of the prospecting area is in the public domain, few have cashed in on leases or land sales. On top of that, uranium mining and processing is a hot and dirty job which promises few big bonanzas. "In most eight-hour days," says one prospector, "it just isn't possible to recover enough high-grade ore to pay your expenses. Maybe after you have moved 75 tons of rock your vein peters...
...Garden plant was taken by the state last spring as part of eminent domain proceedings to build the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway near North Station. Originally, the Garden had intended to move the ice-making machinery from the Boston Arena to the Garden. Had this plan gone through, the Arena would not have been available for college practice and games this year...
...Alamo was more than a century ago. Texans feel that the U.S. Government is rustling them out of their birthright. Texas was a sovereign nation which entered the Union voluntarily, and by the terms of the annexation agreement of 1845, she was allowed to retain control of her public domain, which, Texans say, stretches 10½ miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Other coastal states claim the offshore oil under general provisions of the U.S. Constitution. The fact that Texas tidelands as yet have produced practically no oil did not lessen Texans' fury against President Truman this year...