Word: proconsulate
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Australopithecus, like all higher primates, is unspecialized. He is physiologically equipped with no defenses; even the sharp canine teeth of his ape ancestors, Proconsul, are gone. His brain is only slightly larger than that of an ape. The most natural question to ask is, how could such a generalized defenseless creature exist...
...first journey Barnabas and Paul left Antioch together to carry the Gospel to other cities of the Greek world. At Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, they were invited to preach before the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, whose court magician set to heckling the two missionaries. At that, Paul turned on the man and denounced him so eloquently that Proconsul Paulus was converted, and his magician, according to Acts, went blind. After that encounter, Paul seems to have changed his name to its Roman form and become leader of the mission; the author of Acts begins to refer to Paul...
...Havana's airport, Mikoyan climbed out of his plane from Moscow in the manner of a proconsul come to view his latest province. Waiting and happily savoring the event were Fidel Castro and Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, president of Cuba's national bank and the government's leading...
...after Nasser's speech, Damascus' Communist newspaper Al Noor went out of business. Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash, the leading Communist in the Arab world, went underground. Nasser's Syrian proconsul, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, was more emphatic than Nasser. "The Communist Party has shown its real self," he said. "Its attitude is treason to the Arab cause and a dagger's stab directed by people who do not represent the real face of the Syrian region...
...without bruising any feelings, he announced a reorganization of the U.A.R. government. The first result was to move Hourani as a member of the new central Cabinet out of Syria and into Egypt. A second was to clip the scheming Colonel Abdel Hamid Ser-raj's power as proconsul in Syria by placing him under the Egyptian Minister of Interior, who would take over Serraj's much-prized authority to appoint Syrian provincial governors. That took care of the two most ambitious power seekers in Damascus. In the shuffle Nasser also dropped his second Syrian Vice President, Sabri...