Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piety about "the secret of seeing" being "the pearl of great price," modestly insisting, "I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood." Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup, no graceful inscriber of 365 inspirational prose poems. As she guides the attention to a muskrat, to a monarch butterfly, a heron or a coot, Miss Dillard is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks its game...
Thereafter, he became an enlightened monarch who seemed to want to repopulate the islands, as it were, singlehanded. (Estimated score: 21 wives, numerous concubines, more than 50 offspring.) His enduring love, his Guinevere, was Kaahumanu, a stout sexpot to whom he always returned...
...economic crisis. Not since 1924, when the first Labor government took office under Ramsay MacDonald as a minority government with support from the Liberals, had the political situation been so uncertain. It was possible that Queen Elizabeth could find herself in an extraordinarily awkward position for a modern constitutional monarch: deciding which party or parties would be best able to command support in the House of Commons and thus run the government. The Crown could even be dragged into an unseemly political row if the Tories tried to cling to power in a way that appeared unfair...
...aging (81) monarch-who survived Mussolini's invasion in the 1930s as well as an abortive coup 13 years ago -really had no choice. He gave in to the rebels' demands, and last week virtually turned over the reins of authority to the military...
...time around. Graduation has the reputation for being a pretty good party, and since it was the end (appropriately called Commencement), it had to be pretty good. Also, Gerard Piel, in Scientific American had called it the most stirring ceremonial occasion this side of the coronation of an English monarch. So maybe there was something in it. Certainly there was something after it. The future...