Word: monarches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied on their monarch, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk...
...clean up Egyptian politics seemed almost hopeless. The courts were jammed with tax-evasion cases. The battle to win sovereignty of the Sudan for King Farouk had made little headway, despite endless talks with the British. On top of all of this, it now seemed to Hilaly that his monarch, on whom he had counted, was weakening...
When Belgium's 21-year-old King Baudouin, the world's most eligible bachelor monarch, left to join his family for a visit in Italy, wishful matchmakers thought they could hear the distant peal of royal wedding bells. The object of their speculation: Princess Margherita, 22, a cousin of the late King Victor Emmanuel. It was more than coincidence, they insisted, that members of both families had met in Rome and Florence...
...Britain's sovereign has surrendered most of the crown revenue to Parliament, which in turn, acting somewhat like an insurance company, gives some of it back in the form of specific annuities to members of the royal family. The system was designed largely to prevent an impulsive monarch from throwing away his substance wholesale. Actually, what the crown surrenders in revenues is twice what it gets back in allowances. Once in control of the money, the House of Commons has been traditionally reluctant to part with it. After a rowdy argument in the House in 1840, Queen Victoria...
Meanwhile, circulation may be Ivoking for a third-class monarch with a Paris chit, sending flash acks for unflushed giftees, or getting a nonconvertible yen for an over-the-transom order...