Word: kingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first trip to the U.S. five years ago. Sure enough, the lively Frederika danced into the capital with smiling, informal grace and two French poodles (Topsy and Toodles). With her were two of her three children: Crown Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta, 18, and Princess Sophia, 20. Explained Frederika: King Paul stayed home to look after the country, and Princess Irene, 16, stayed home to look after the King...
Though her visit was billed as unofficial (and the U.S. was thus spared the need of according full honors), Queen Frederika had a serious purpose for her presence. Greece is soon to start operating its first nuclear reactor, and with King Paul, Frederika has become a student of nuclear physics. "For my part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want...
...British left behind a Jordan in far less promising shape than Lebanon. Young King Hussein was reported seriously considering following the British westward for a "vacation" in Europe. He professed to feel in no further need of help. But as ever, Jordan continued to exist largely on the sufferance of more powerful neighbors who were restrained, if at all, by the feeling that any other solution to the Jordanian problem would be even worse...
...Shah of Iran, jolted by the murder of his neighbor, the King of Iraq, has been looking anxiously at his country's need for reform. Iran's rich, rigid and feudal-minded landowners in turn have been looking nervously at the Shah's designs on them. When the Shah's Prime Minister Manouchehr Eghbal strolled in the Majlis grounds last week, Deputies waiting for the Assembly session to begin asked him jokingly what ill wind brought him to the Chamber. "You'll see shortly," responded Eghbal...
...King Must Die, Renault...