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Emir Abdullah, meanwhile, worked hard to transform Jordan, an ungainly, rocky patch of land, into a kingdom. For two years he lived in a tent. On the tent site at Amman Abdullah later built his palace. He ruled as an absolute monarch, but the poorest Bedouin could come to plead with him at any time. He once spent a whole day personally tracking down a rascal who had made a poor woman pregnant...
Seretse has been living in London with his wife and baby daughter on a ?1,000-a-year government allowance; Tshekedi stayed with a neighboring tribe in Bechuanaland until he turned up in London last March to plead his case...
Cardinal Sarto's election to the papacy in 1903 came as a surprise to him. When he saw the balloting swinging in his favor, he rose to plead passionately with his brother cardinals not to elect him to a post for which he felt himself unfitted and unworthy. But his eleven-year reign was packed with decisions that have proved historic for the Roman Catholic Church...
What was to have been a squash court is bequeathed to them only out of the ineptitude of Eliot House athletes. For shame, Eliot House! Even though I be the last in this House of Irreligion to raise my voice, I plead, I demand, that the music room of the tower be banished to the basement, that the seat of worship soar to take its place...
Knaus stoutly asserts his innocence and will plead not guilty. He is now free on $3,000 ball...