Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slowly she paced around a fire blazing upon the bank of the esteemed Godavari River, at Gangapur, India. Priests invoked in her behalf the whole pantheon of Hindu deities. At the conclusion of the ceremony she approached the potent High Priest Jagadgur Shankarcharva, touched his feet, received his blessing, and walked away no longer Nancy Ann Miller but the Hindu Maiden Devi Sharmista...
...less than 17 separate rituals were required to transform the Maiden into a Maharani (courtesy title). The first ceremonies admitted her to Sir Tukoji's caste, and made her the adopted daughter of his potent kinswoman, the Princess Tara-bai. With her social status thus assured, she became by a second adoption the daughter of a Court functionary, Colonel Lam Bhate, whose duty it became to give her in marriage...
After pausing for an instant, Her Majesty added as a potent afterthought: "I am also writing the story of my life. . . . It is a long task. ... As a child I knew all the great personalities...
After the vote, triumphant lights twinkled far into the night at the sumptuous Managua residence of famed onetime President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorro. He had defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...
...Benedictine Abbot and a recognized authority upon the medieval Church in England. Upon his appointment he set to work in the Palace of St. Calixtus, which Pius V the last sainted Pope, gave to the Benedictine order in 1566. In 1914, Pius X spoke of him to potent Cardinal Merry del Val, then the Papal Secretary of State: "Abbot Gasquet is really the right man in the right place, and we must show him our appreciation. ..." A few months later His Holiness gave Francis Aidan Gasquet permission to wear a Cardinal's red hat.*Last week, tall, genial...