Word: freemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crown which, its cross knocked askew through the ages, is still Hungary's most precious treasure. (After World War II it was taken in custody by the U.S. Government.) In 1222, only seven years after the barons of England forced King John to sign their Magna Charta, the freemen of Hungary made their own King Andrew sign a comparable document known as the Golden Bull, the first charter of human rights on the European continent. But Hungary, unlike insular England, was set like a bastion between the conflicting civilizations of East and West, and under the strain of constant...
...when there was a Hungarian bloc anywhere in the U.S., a promising Illinois Congressman named Abraham Lincoln proposed a resolution to a pro-Hungarian mass meeting: "Resolved that in the opinion of this meeting, the immediate acknowledgement of the independence of Hungary by our Government is due from American freemen to their struggling brethren, to the general cause of republican liberty...
...concert opened with Cimarosa Oboc Concerto. Robert Freemen played it with a sublety of phrasing and sweetness of tone of the highest order. The Orchestra, whose playing throughout the evening was solid, failed occasionally to match his sensitivity...
...cheering teenagers, who seemed more eager to swamp the police boats than to welcome their Queen. Cannon roared; sirens blew; wave after wave of fighter aircraft swooped low over the royal yacht. Her Majesty, helped by Philip, stepped ashore at Farm Cove, where the first English settlers (290 freemen and 717 convicts) landed...