Word: napoleonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still more important discoveries awaited the investigators. Napoleon's soldiers had missed one tomb entirely; within it lay undisturbed the young Prince Fernando de la Cerda, eldest son of Alfonso X, who died in 1275. He lay on embroidered cushions, a jeweled toque on his head, a jeweled belt around him, his hand still gripping a jeweled sword hilt...
...Chicago, Napoleon Bonaparte, 56, quit the Rock Island railroad maintenance crew after 29 years. A Chinese gentleman in Canton divorced all four of his wives for "differences of opinion." And a man in a Cleveland tavern got into an argument with the bartender over a glass of beer, so he went outside, drove his car through the plate glass window, and parked in front...
...talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America's erstwhile No. 1 Communist Gerhart Eisler. When one of the delegates blurted out "Long live Stalin!", foreign guests and their Soviet friends applauded loud and long...
...attempt on our present electoral basis," he said, "to challenge the powers that belong to the duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must be short and obscure...' We may just as well see what a girl looks like before we marry...
Advice from Napoleon. This week the delegates broke up into six committees, which would accomplish whatever concrete work the Council was capable of. The committees would have a chance to agree on recommendations for: Europe's economy, social security, common European nationality and passport, joint public works (possibly including the old Jules Vernean dream of a tunnel under the Channel), and changes in the political structure of Europe to achieve greater unity...