Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veto in the U.N. Security Council was not exclusively a Russian invention. The U.S. Senate itself would not have ratified the U.N. Charter in 1945 if the veto had been omitted. Last week the U.S. and six other nations (Canada, France, Philippines, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay) submitted to the U.N. General Assembly a plan to bypass the sacred veto. No event in U.N.'s history-not even the decision to defend Korea-had more significance. The new proposal, well received by most of the delegations, meant that even the great powers (Russia excepted) were now willing to submit...
...year that Japan deposed the Korean Emperor and openly annexed his kingdom, Syngman Rhee returned to Korea as a Y.M.C.A. worker, doing a bit of political agitation on the side. The Japanese, who distrusted all Christians, were doubly distrustful of Syngman Rhee. They assigned as his permanent shadow a police agent named Yoon Piung-hi, one of the most notorious of the "hunting dogs," i.e., Koreans in the Japanese secret service. A specialist in a kind of primitive psychological warfare, Yoon Piung-hi assiduously spread rumors about Rhee. On one occasion Rhee spent the night away from home, sleeping...
...bottom of the garden, nearly 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked...
France--Elizabeth Gallaher, Marion Henderson, Marie Johnson, Miss Melchior, Denise Otis, Elizabeth Salmon, and Margery Ann Williams; Greece--Eve Catagygiotu; Italy--Joan C. Capeci and Minerva Pinell; the Netherlands--Elizabeth J. Weichel; Norway--Dorothy J. Burton; and the United Kingdom--Doris V. Evans and Isabel E. Gamble...
...More impressive to order than to drink. In the United Kingdom, a double whisky is i J4 to 2 oz., about the size of a single drink in U.S. bars...