Word: proclaimer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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School Bored. In Hurley, N. Mex., junior-high-school Students Donald Broome and Martha Manners were made joint principals-for-a-day after winning a magazine-sales contest, were swiftly removed from office when their first official act was to proclaim a school holiday...
...Egypt, meanwhile, diggers at Sakkara uncovered a 4,000-year-old tomb from the Sixth Dynasty. There, only bright, well-preserved wall paintings still proclaim the baggage that the dead king kept to use at his resurrection. Unlike Mayan monarchs, Pharaohs of that age were too poor for jeweled funerals...
...days later, President Johannes Dieckmann of the lower house of the East German legislature stepped before a cheering .throng to proclaim formally the East German Heroes of 1952. As the names were called, the crowd turned expectantly toward the place of honor reserved for Heroes. The others were there, but not Willy...
...high lama, the Dharma Raja, who was believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha himself, and a temporal leader, the Deb Raja. Finding a new reincarnation of Buddha when the old one died was always a trouble. It involved waiting several years and then finding a baby who would proclaim his identity by recognizing certain suitable symbols. By 1907 Bhutan's lamas, grown fat and indolent with centuries of rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop, a fighting politician who got himself elected Gyalpo...
...letter day on any Davidson man's social calendar is the Homecoming football game, which this year was last Saturday's game with Furman. College officials proclaim the day a holiday; each fraternity strips off the air of conformity and puts on a papier-mache veneer of garlands and streamers in an attempt to out-decorate the other ten houses. Consisting of a formal dance on Friday and informal dances on Saturday, these weekends usually feature name bands...