Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she learned that Jordan's King Hussein was planning to visit the Air Force Academy, Barbara Ann sent him a telegram, begging him to grant Barnwell amnesty during his stay-a right traditionally given visiting heads of state by U.S. military academies.* But a snowstorm forced Hussein to cancel his tour of the academy; he wired his regrets and best wishes for a happy marriage...
Early in Queen Victoria's long reign. Sir Benjamin Hall, her Chief Lord of Woods and Forests, promised Britain's Parliament "a king of clocks, the biggest and best in the world, within sight and sound of the heart of London." He kept his promise grandly. London's great Westminster clock was soon overseeing London's pace, keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when...
...complaisance, there are those who still keep a wary eye on the lazing erstwhile king. "Sure." said Broadway-TV Actor Horace (Naked City) MacMahon, "you're always hearing people say, 'Well, Winchell can't fight any more.' Maybe so, but it's like old Sugar Ray Robinson-you know anybody wants to fight...
Boston University The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister, author, Montgomery...
...Dave King Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A British young man who is not angry about anything at all, merely perplexed, original and funny...