Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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He was a captive in the hands of the Western Allies. But they, having observed that the Nuremberg trials generated sympathy for the Nazis, decided this time to adopt a different plan: Stalin was handed over to a committee of eminent Quakers, who contended that even he, by the power...
In the company of four muscular Quakers, he was taken for a brisk walk during which he was encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's...
From "Stalin's Nightmare--Amor Vincit Omnia" in Bertrand Russell's Nightmares of Eminent Persons.
Sweden, which generally plays it lightly, last week was in an uproar about sex. The cause was a petition of protest to King Gustav VI Adolf signed by 140 eminent Swedish physicians, including the King's own doctor. Their plea to the monarch and to the government: take swift...
Court physicians claimed that the King was suffering from an old ulcer, but two eminent British cancer specialists were flown from London to take part in the operation. The surgery was performed in an emergency operating room set up in Tatoi palace, 15 miles north of Athens; a helicopter waited...