Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public life, even less was known until December 1948, when Loy W. Henderson went to Nepal as the first U.S. diplomatic representative to that kingdom. Prime Minister Rana was somewhat embarrassed to learn that Minister Henderson bore a letter from President Truman addressed to the King, in person. After due deliberation, Rana decided that the privilege of getting letters from Harry Truman be added to barley-throwing and being called Sr15. Accordingly, a great durbar was held, and Minister Henderson handed the King his letter. A TIME correspondent who went in with the U.S. mission noticed that the King seemed...
...largest percentage of applications are for study in the United Kingdom. Twenty-nine College seniors and 55 graduate students want to go there. Second in popularity is France, with 12 seniors and 28 graduates...
Many an Abner fan can still recite the poem with which Liddle Noodnik, the shivering infantile princeling of Lower Slobbovia, welcomed Senator Phogbound to his wretched kingdom...
...have been returned to this House," he said last week, "by the will of the people in the biggest working-class constituency in the whole of the United Kingdom, but apparently their will is not to count. It is to be brushed aside because of some archaic legal enactment...
...Passos went to postwar Britain to see how socialism had panned out after several years of hard sifting by history. He shook the official guides, went from end to end of the United Kingdom on his own legs and resources, catching impressions. One gloomy theme ran through the whole trip: socialism in Britain is strangling in dividual liberty in the historic citadel of liberty. Many a farmer and small business man told Dos Passos what an intellectual phrased most sharply: "England's dead, quite dead, quite. We're the lost island of the Atlantic, sunk in everlasting ennui...