Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo news agency went so far as to declare that 23-year-old King Feisal died of a heart attack after his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah. slapped his face for wanting to surrender to the rebels. In Manhattan, Iraq's new delegate to the U.N. shrugged that the King's death was just one of those things. "Feisal," said he, "was very much liked, but unfortunately he was under the complete control of his uncle. The poor chap was young, with very little experience...
...wiping out corruption way back when he was in military college, of how he slowly gathered his band of followers, of how "the agents and spies" of the old regime almost caught up with him in 1956. Finally, when in early July he was ordered into Jordan to bolster King Hussein, El-Kassim "read in the eyes and movements of the people" that the time to strike had come. He had no appetite for putting down Jordan troubles, for, as members of the junta like...
...Egyptian officer arrived in Khartoum and announced himself new counselor to the Egyptian embassy. To the Sudanese government the name of Ali Khashaba was familiar. Iraq and Lebanon had already expelled him for subversion. Last spring Saudi Arabia, kicking him out, accused him of masterminding a plot to murder King Saud. Within three days of his arrival in Khartoum, the Sudanese government charged Ali Khashaba with stirring up subversion, gave him exactly 24 hours to get out of the country...
...Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose classmates at the Royal Naval College at Osborne would on occasion ignominiously guillotine him in a partly opened window -in stern reminder of the fate of Charlie I, a King who stepped on too many toes...
...angel host bearing in its midst the Holy Grail ... It pours out exquisite odors, like streams of gold." The opening scene of Wieland's production duly provided a blinding cobalt blue sky against which was ranged a semicircle of knights in dazzling silver mail. The oak tree where King Heinrich holds court was reduced to a circular cluster of painted branches hung high over the stage. The castle itself was a fringe of Gothic-stylized overhangs...