Word: proclaimer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sovereign's accession and title. The council's task was complicated by the fact that Elizabeth, the first British monarch since George I to be out of the country when her predecessor died, was still 4,000 air miles from London and hence unavailable to proclaim, as required, that she is a Protestant. Nevertheless, in two hours, the councilors decided that she was indeed the rightful sovereign, and at 7 p.m. the House of Commons met again to hear their report and swear allegiance to the new Queen. Then they adjourned. That night London was dark and still...
...George VI, of blessed and glorious memory, by whose decease the Crown is solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Princess, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, we therefore Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this realm . . . do now hereby with one voice and consent of tongue and heart publish and proclaim the high and mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is now . . . become Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen of this realm and all her other realms and territories, head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to whom her lieges do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience with...
Patchwork Fences. Western Europeans are balking. At Strasbourg, visiting U.S. Congressmen and Senators had voiced crotchety impatience at Europe's failure to dash off a constitution and proclaim a U.S. of Europe (TIME, Dec. 3). Dwight Eisenhower spoke impatiently of Europe's "patchwork territorial fences...
...majority in a time of crisis, but in so doing he has been forced to underscore another problem: the inviolability of objective truth. The main thesis of the play is that a scientist may and must stand firm against the animalism and stupidity of mob opinion; when the masses proclaim him an enemy of the people for his adherence to the facts, he realizes that the inherent fallacy of democracy lies in the selfishness of the people...
...America," they proclaim, "must still count itself ... a finite threshold to infinity, a stage in the development of 'cosmic man.' Otherwise Western man has no future, and the barbarian inherits his earth. Such are the dimensions of the present struggle. All the civilization, the truths, the promises recited in this book are at stake...