Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been deliberately burned by their surviving comrades to conceal the victims' identities. Some 160 of the intruders were captured, and will be tried on charges of defacing a holy place. The likely sentence: death by beheading. Saudi officials are now convinced that the whole operation was aimed at King Khalid and the royal family. The King had planned to worship at the mosque that day but changed his mind because of illness. Some eyewitnesses reported that the guerrillas closely examined the faces of hundreds of worshipers, apparently in the hope that the King, in disguise, might be among them...
...attack has deeply alarmed Saudi leaders. Questions are being asked about whether Crown Prince Fahd, the heir apparent to King Khalid, commands enough authority, especially among the armed forces, to withstand a broader-based insurrection. One U.S. expert believes that the regime should embark on an emergency anticorruption campaign, but he is not particularly hopeful. His conclusion: "Some say the royal family can survive. Some say it is too late...
Charles L. Allen, folksy pulpit patriarch of Houston's First United Methodist Church, thinks that seminarians' lack of interest in preaching was largely due to the emphasis on social impact encouraged by Martin Luther King Jr. The irony is that King, "one of the greatest pulpit men of all time," moved his countrymen as much with words as with deeds. "A lot of younger preachers at the time didn't see that," says Allen...
...Dead Zone, King...
...creamed eggs en cocotte-and Dining shows the way to prepare them. In Jean Santeuil, Proust wrote of the lobster set before Mlle. de Réveillon, reason enough to provide the formula for homard à l'Américaine. Albertine pleads for skate with black butter; King delivers it. Marcel wrote affectionately of éclairs, marrons glacés, strawberry juice, orangeade, chocolate cake, oysters, petite marmite, roast goose ("superbly limbed and shining with gravy"), hare a l'Allemande and venison that was "dark, brown-fleshed, hot and soused [with red wine and cognac], over which...