Word: marshaller
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...accomplish these aims, Shapp turned to a device that is becoming increasingly popular as a way of policing the police and the criminal-justice system. His administration appointed a special prosecutor, a figure above the political squabbles and beholden to no man, the contemporary equivalent of the legendary Western marshal who rode into town to bring law-and-order and rode out again when his job was done...
Thus ended the five-year rule of the army marshal who led the 1970 coup that sent Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile in Peking and turned his kingdom into a republic. Sihanouk was mercurial and eccentric. Lon Nol, who was partially paralyzed by a stroke four years ago, was withdrawn and mystic. As Lon Nol's regime became tainted with corruption, Sihanouk managed to ingratiate himself with the Khmer Rouge. The Prince may yet make a comeback in Cambodia, but most likely as a figurehead under the tight control of the Khmer Rouge...
...authors rightly approach the castle as the center of medieval life. Their story ranges well beyond the castle gate, but it centers on Chepstow, a well-preserved fortress on the Welsh border not far from Bristol. The 12th century lord of Chepstow, William Marshal, turns up with a companion knight on the tournament circuit in France. Touring the country like early-day golf pros, they clean up handsomely, accumulating scores and scores of horses and piles of armor in more than 100 contests...
...Radcliffe Class of '76 will elect senior class marshals this spring, a reversal of this year's experiment of holding elections together with Harvard class marshal elections in the fall, a Radcliffe administrator said yesterday...
This year's marshal elections, coordinated by Paul Goodof '71, associate secretary of the Associated Harvard Alumni, were not satisfactory because "not enough notice was given, there were too many ballots, and it was difficult to coordinate the voting," Janus said...