Word: protectorates
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Charles II spent the next 11 years skulking about European capitals, with one disastrous attempt to claim his rightful crown. Parliament abolished the monarchy, and then General Oliver Cromwell declared himself the nation's Lord Protector. King Charles II, as he styled himself, though uncrowned, lived dependent on the charity of others. Fraser quite rightly emphasizes the humiliation and the poverty of these years. Charles II, unlike any other monarch of 17th-century Europe, learned about hunger and cold at first hand...
...several other of the island's 17 original forts are on a walking tour laid out by Statia's energetic historical foundation. One of the best beaches is on Tumble Down Dick Bay, apparently named after Oliver Cromwell's son and ill-starred successor as Lord Protector of England. The beaches on the brooding, windswept Atlantic side are more for roving than for swimming...
...fact that Worth is Jo's mother and tie Sam up when he impotently protests. Even Jo, half delirious with painkillers, is drawn to her, finally begging the black companion to carry her to bed, and to death. As Sam gives up his role as husband and protector, so he loses his identity. The shape of our lives, Albee is saying, is created by the needs of those around us. When those needs disappear, so, in a sense, do we. Jo's pain is physical and therefore transitory; Sam's is spiritual and therefore endless...
This season, before every game, Lau taped a red bullseye to the neck protector so it dangled ominously below his chin. At 6-ft., 1-in., Lau hoped that his opponents would aim for the target, causing them to shoot high and send the puck sailing over the net. (Assuming, of course that they didn't shoot straight and knock...
Americans rob the Third World of their very rich cultural identity under the titles of art collector and art protector. However, like any other natural resource, there is a finite supply...