Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That force survived and beat down the political absolutism of the 17th and 18th centuries, which held that the law was no more than the will of the sovereign. Sir Edward Coke immortalized Bracton's words-"Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege" (The king ought not to be under man, but under God and the law)-by flinging them in the furious face of absolutist James I. Then Coke fell to his knees in terror of losing his head-yet his doctrine lives today as the wellspring of the rule...
After two years of independence, the kingdom of Morocco is still without a constitution or an elected parliament; but power does not rest in the hands of King Mohammed V alone. The government has in effect been run by an uneasy coalition between the King, who became a national hero after the French made the mistake of exiling him in 1953. and the ultra-nationalist Istiqlal Party, which led the agitation for independence. Recognizing Istiqlal strength, Mohammed filled his Cabinet with Istiqlal men but chose as first Premier pro-Western Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai...
...arose over the promise of a series of local elections. A group of anti-Istiqlal Berber leaders and wealthy independents petitioned the Premier for guarantees of "democratic freedoms" against the arbitrary electioneering tactics they feared the powerful Istiqlal might use. When the Premier sent the petition on to the King, the Istiqlal members of the government resigned in a body. The King had no alternative but to dismiss the Premier...
...yard dash, the incomparable Bo Roberson appears a strong bet to outdistance the field, and in the broad jump, Cornell has both Gerry Knapp and John King to back him up. Roberson also runs the 220 low hurdles and the 220, but in both it is risky to choose against the varsity's Joel Landau...
Those moviegoers who came to know and love Yul Brynner as the King of Siam in the film The King and I will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children...