Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Manhattan's modestly housed Commodity Exchange, some 60 brokers pressed around the mahogany rail circling a sunken trading pit as a bell rang promptly at 9:50 a.m. "March," intoned the exchange's trading superintendent, Patrick J. White, from his elevated perch at the edge of the...
Curses, intimidations, threats, blackmail labels to brand people all over the sky and earth, blows at my body, an imperial decree imposed on my head and the rebukes of a certain senior general piercing my ears. Are there any more secret weapons? Bring them all out together. The universe is...
Modern generals win paper monuments. Roman triumphs and imperial purple are out; the dead great don't even get purple prose. Olive-drab words backed by properly inspected facts do the honors. Today's armies, those huge agglomerations of men and machines required for warfare by great industrial...
One of the chief criticisms of monarchy is that it is not only an anachronism but also a mighty expensive one. Japan's Emperor Hirohito, even though he formally declared himself mortal in 1946, draws a stipend of $3,000,000 a year, plus another $3,000,000 of...
"Who brought me to this forlorn place?" goes an old Vietnamese song about exile. It was hardly an apt description of the scene in Paris last week when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu...