Word: pomp
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...long political experience," he wrote, "... I readily admit that the post which had now fallen to me [the Prime Ministry] was the one I liked the best. Power, for the sake of lording it over fellow-creatures or adding to personal pomp, is rightly judged base. But power in a national crisis, when a man believes he knows what orders should be given, is a blessing...
...neither expects nor inspires pomp & circumstance, he still likes to sit up late over a poker table, drinks branch water and bourbon, and roars when his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, tells an off-color joke. He has learned to duck embarrassing questions, but he is still capable of insisting stubbornly that the spy hearings are "a red herring" long after the charge has become ridiculous...
...boxing, there weren't four heavyweights worth Joe Louis' time to lay them out. But last week, with much pomp & ceremony, four hopeful heavyweights climbed into prize rings to fight for the right to face the aging champ next June...
Scrubbed & Sterilized. But throughout the Commonwealth, Elizabeth's baby (whose name will not be decided upon until just before his baptism) was welcomed with warmth and affection rather than official pomp and circumstance...
...Cliffe dwellers open the evening broadcasts of Radio Radcliffe at 7:29 1/2 Monday through Friday nights. RR depends mainly on platter shows for program content; swaps several broadcasts weekly with WHRV; works in two pocket-sized rooms in the 'Cliffe Rield House, and signs off nightly with "Pomp and Circumstances" at 10:501/2...