Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King's next challenge to the brother who had saved his throne came with the recent arrest of Mohammed al Jasir, the scholarly editor of Riyadh's weekly newspaper Al Yamamah (The Dove), who had been casually tossed into jail, in the old way, by King Saud. Feisal heatedly protested that such arbitrary actions infringed on his new powers as Interior Minister. The King stared at him through his thick glasses, lumpily stood his ground. Feisal turned in his resignation...
Going Through Channels. Once again a royal family council had to be called. Princes warned Feisal that, if he quit, the younger brothers might depose or kill the King, and told King Saud that civil war and bankruptcy might ruin the land if Feisal stepped down. By last week, after hours of debate, the council had patched together a compromise: the King approved Feisal's budget and Feisal assumed responsibility for the King's debts; Editor al Jasir was freed from jail, and the King conceded the importance of going through channels. Thus Saudi Arabia, still very much...
Last week, after 44-year-old Presbyterian McNeill had finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...
Emotional Flames. The congregation was stunned. Some women in the choir burst into tears. Several parishioners rose from their pews to denounce Commissioner King. "You have been listening to the wrong people," said one. "If we kick a Christian man and his family out like this, what hope have we?" asked another. Valdosta's King shook his head. Said he, with notable irrelevance: "The commission feels that the voice of the pulpit should be the voice of the congregation...
Officially, Patricia is daughter of the game warden, a great, burly white hunter who has repented and now lives only to prevent other hunters from harming his animals. But the natives whisper that her real father is the king of beasts - a legend Patricia encourages by spending all her afternoons on chummy terms with the reserve's biggest lion...