Word: imperiale
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Recited Aaron Sharov glowingly to a Moscow meeting: "I ... a toolmaker of the seventh category . . . propose the candidacy of our beloved Comrade Stalin." The chairman intoned a Soviet litany: "[We] nominate the true continuer of the cause of Lenin, the wise leader of the Soviet people, the creator of the...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had two new titles-one that recalled the past, another that thrust him into the future. He was now Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and new Chief of the Imperial General Staff.* His job was to tailor Britain's Army to the shape of the...
Dutch voices here in Java are quick to blame their own "woodenheaded" Parliament for its inability to roll with the punches in imperial British style. Many admit that the freedom movement had not been "made in Japan" (however much it was nurtured by Tokyo). President Soekarno had openly collaborated with...
Born in Bengal of an Anglo-Indian family, Orwell was a scholarship student at Eton (where he "learned as nearly as possible nothing"), served for five years in Burma as a member of the Indian Imperial Police, fought and was severely wounded in the Spanish Civil War as a member...
Last week, Emperor Hirohito, on a dais in front of a gold-leaf screen, facing 35 morning-coated members of the Imperial Household, heard a chorus singsong through five winning poems in the annual Imperial Poetry Party.