Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viscount Hailsham, Tory leader in the House of Lords and sometime (1929) president of the Oxford Union, sternly denounced this sort of "government by undergraduate resolution," compared it to the pacifist days of 1933 when the Union overwhelmingly voted that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country." As for the suggestion that Britain should unilaterally forswear atomic weapons, he pointed out that only the U.S. and Russia are major atomic powers. "When you are running third in a race, you cannot, by giving up, give what is called a moral lead...
...still newer antibiotics. Strangely, nobody knows exactly how severe the problem is because most deaths caused by staph are not so listed. If a patient admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths (out of 7,837) in 1956 were listed as caused by staph. But Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt estimates in the American Journal of Public Health that fully 100 and perhaps more than 200 deaths should have been so listed...
Died. Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, 79, daughter of Frederik VIII of Denmark, widow of Prince Carl (who turned down the Norwegian crown), mother-in-law of Norway's King Olaf V and Denmark's Prince Axel; in Stockholm...
...present policy of restraint if the Algerian problem does not receive a solution which gives satisfaction to the national aspirations of the Algerian people and recognizes their liberty and sovereignty." In a defiant gesture of solidarity with Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba in his quarrel with France, the King endorsed Bourguiba's long-standing dream of a North African federation composed of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria...
...facial tic. The Queen ate little, leaving her untouched trays out on the terrace to feed the birds. There were no 7 p.m. phone calls from the Shah, routine on previous trips. Soraya could reflect on the fate of her predecessor, Queen Fawzia, sister of Egypt's former King Farouk. She was able to give the Shah only a daughter, and was divorced (in 1948). But the Shah is reportedly deeply in love with the svelte Soraya (as he was not with Fawzia), and she with...