Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another newborn nation, the Kingdom of Morocco has sadly discovered that independence provides a brief, heady celebration but cures no chronic ailments. Two years after Morocco gained its freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble...
Many of the eager young politicians of the ruling Istiqlal (Independence) Party view the King (and onetime Sultan) as an old-fashioned survival. Fighting tribesmen in the Rif mountains, in turn, view the Istiqlal with suspicion as "Frenchified city slickers." Inside the Istiqlal itself, a vocal left-of-center minority demands a neutralist foreign policy and denounces "palace politics...
...From King Arthur he turned to other critics...
Such improved synthetics have cut into the market for Old King Cotton. In one generation the percentage of cotton-fiber sales dipped from 85% to 65% of total U.S. fiber sales. But cottonmen are fighting back by developing goods with wash-and-wear finishes. Most of Dan River's cottons are now treated with finish that produces drip-dry, wrinkle-free cotton shirts, bedsheets...
...plan, no itinerary. He visits Helen of Troy and her husband Menelaus in Sparta. Helen is still beautiful, but the King has become a fat and greedy landlord whose subjects are on the edge of revolt. Helen and Odysseus are, up to a point, two of a kind. When he suggests that they run off, she agrees, and they slip away to Crete. There the King is old and sterile; there, too, the people talk revolution and the blond barbarians from the north are muscling in. The old King marries Helen, and Odysseus, after adventures of fierce brutality, leaves Crete...