Word: mauricius
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...longer a whiz at Latin, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, heard a few words in that language at a solemn Oxford University ceremony at which he was awarded an honorary doctor of civil law degree, 'installed as Oxford's new chancellor. Old Oxonian Mauricius Haraldus Macmillan expressed his gratitude for the honor in hesitant Latin, seemed relieved to return to his native tongue, in which he allowed: "My Latin pronunciation is almost as obsolete as the language itself...
...Oxford an unexpected windfall of $6,000 in fees. One train brought down Aviation Minister Duncan Sandys from London. Old Laborite Lord Beveridge, 81, tottered in just in time. One M.A. came in a wheelchair, another in an ambulance. By week's end, Oxford had a new chancellor: Mauricius Haraldus Macmillan...
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