Word: imperiale
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For the News Service's Suzanne Davis, top priority was the creation "from paper clips to computers" of three workplaces: one at the Moscone Center; the second, for processing film, at a nearby photo lab; and the third wilder the chandeliers of the San Francisco ""Hilton's Imperial...
Young Ivan set about codifying laws, establishing schools and unifying his fractured domain. But his imperial dreams soon drowned in his own appetites. He married eight times and ordered at least one of his wives murdered. The Tsar found he enjoyed killing and torture almost as much as sex and...
More broadly, the end of the war permanently altered the imperial relations that had governed much of the world for about four centuries. Churchill, who once said he had not become Prime Minister to oversee the liquidation of the British Empire, lived to see it liquidated by others. India, Malaya...
Unaware of the German lapses, the Allies agonized until the last moment about the tremendous risks they were taking. "I am very uneasy about the whole operation . . ." said Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff, as late as June 5. "It may well be the most ghastly disaster...
In a related criticism, Washington called President Reagan's "imperial trip" to China a media event geared towards the "star quality" approach to government.