Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice in all but six of the 55 electoral districts in Greece. Karamanlis had brought on the new elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral law (Greece's fourth since the end of World War II) designed to strengthen the two-party system and to cut down on the splinter groups that proliferate in a nation that takes its political differences seriously...
Spain's last reigning King was Alfonso XIII, who voluntarily left Spain in 1931 in the face of nationwide republican election victories, and died in exile. His son, the present Pretender, angered Franco by demanding that the dictator step down after winning Spain's bloody Civil War. Franco later declared Spain a monarchy, but the throne was left empty as young Prince Juan Carlos grew up in exile in Italy and Switzerland. The young prince returned to Spain to be educated at Madrid's St. Isidro high school, and word went out that Franco intended that after...
...view of action and motive. No one would deny even young writers the right to manipulate point of view and form, but it should be obvious that this can succeed only when it is based upon a mastery of the realistic method. Finnegan's Wake comes after Dubliners, and King Lear after Henry...
...sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath," Jesus admonished the Pharisees. This week Boston's venerable Unitarian King's Chapel will begin an experiment that might shock more than Pharisees: repeating Sunday's service on Thursday night for churchgoers who would rather spend Sunday playing golf, painting screens or driving bumper to bumper...
...growing "relaxation of fiber," and "withdrew from the struggle of life into seclusion and silence." He spent lavishly on the family seat, Blenheim Palace, beautifying the grounds but so cluttering up the interior that Horace Walpole said: "It looks like the palace of an auctioneer who has been chosen King of Poland...