Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pomp of ancient Rome or the jeweled brilliance of the great courts of France could shadow the moment; the eye of history could scarcely encompass the spectacle of so many potentates, Presidents and dictators. There sat Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, his pink skull fringed with white, his face now frozen as a death mask, now galvanized into full-muscled motion. Behind him, rust-haired Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia posed self-assured and well fed. Scattered across the green-carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania...
...hoped that marriage would mellow the taciturn and glumly authoritarian manner of King Baudouin, and the royal wedding would help take Belgian minds off the bloody catastrophe of the Congo. The rest of the world experienced the warming reaction that seems to come, especially to democratic nations, with every pomp and circumstance of vanishing royalty. In this case there was a special cause for cheers: the Cinderella girl who couldn't seem to catch a man had caught a king...
Make it a fearful pomp for peasants, A sorcery to the black-coated rational, To the town-girl an adventure, an ad venture...
...Along with a replica of a 17th century coffee house, where Lloyd's of London first began writing ship insurance, and an English pub, the exhibition has on display machinery and merchandise worth at least $200 million. "Don't be misled by what looks like old-fashioned pomp and pageantry," said Prince Philip. "It is true, of course, that the plumbing in some of our older houses is not all that it might be, but that doesn't alter the fact that three out of every five gas turbines flying or on order in the entire Western...
...absolutely balmy. Though the lackluster Summer Show gets an annual trouncing from London's critics, it does represent the Academy's pick of some 10,000 entries sent in by R.A.s and other painters from all over Britain. But last week, when the show opened with appropriate pomp, it was Paul and not his father who was there as an honored guest...