Word: royal
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Following the Persian conquest, Sardis became the Western capital of the Persian Empire, the center of command for the Greek cities along the Lonian coast. The city's wealth and importance was maintained because of its strategic location on the royal road to Susa, a corridor of exchange between East and West. Xerxes mustered his armies there intent on marching into Greece...
...Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Mobil Showcase Network). Even squeezed to fit the small screen, the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic entertainment still ranked as a unique theatrical treat. The nine-hour drama preserved 150 great performances in a format Dickens would have loved: the miniseries...
...indeed do it. And Charles got it in the princely puss. Steve Starkie, who was standing near by, found it amusing-until Charles proved that he too can dish it out and left Steve foaming at the mouth. The Prince was, as one British newspaper put it, "His Royal Pieness...
...Irish Republican Army, and the police had no reason to doubt his word. It was the most brutal I.R.A. action in London since a double bombing in July 1982 that killed four troopers of the Queen's Household Cavalry in Hyde Park and seven members of the Royal Green Jackets Band in Regent's Park. It was not the first time the I.R.A. had chosen the holiday season to mount bombing campaigns in English cities. Following intelligence reports from Northern Ireland, London police had been warning citizens that they had better brace for a Christmas blitz...
Much of this coincides with the author's own early life: Sassoon, who regarded himself merely as an uncomplicated "foxhunting man," once captured single-handed an enemy battalion frontage that the Royal Irish Regiment had failed to take the day before. Then he turned around and wrote...