Word: royalistic
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Dali's reaction, natural in such an enfant terrible, was to become more royalist than the King and more ostentatiously greedy than his Palm Beach and Hollywood patrons. If the net result was a tacky, phosphorescent caricature of Genius at Work, an embarrassment to most aficionados, it is still inconceivable that Dali the bad boy will ever be expelled from the pantheon of modern imagination...
...this atmosphere, it was relatively easy for Bush to exploit the royalist genes that linger in the Republican bloodstream despite the transfusion of Reaganism. None of his rivals could make a convincing case that the normal line of succession should be suspended in 1988. On Tuesday night one of Dole's Democratic friends, Party Elder Bob Strauss, was visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House...
Virtually unknown today, William Franklin cut a grand figure in 18th century America. He was Royal Governor of New Jersey for more than a dozen years and a believer in the divine right of King George III. Other families were similarly split--John Hancock and John Adams had royalist in-laws--but none came asunder with quite the intensity of the Franklins. The result shocked contemporaries but, like imperceptible fissures that suddenly expand in an earthquake, took considerable time in the making...
...distance between the North Pole and the equator. Making that measurement, however, turned out to be impossibly difficult not only because the earth is far from a perfect, unchanging sphere but because of France's internal turmoil. The government's surveyors were arrested as royalist spies, narrowly escaping the guillotine...
...edge of ruin. Private trade was banned, the few existing factories were nationalized, and restrictions on private life burgeoned. The Pathet Lao appropriated livestock and went so far as to require young people to obtain approval from party cadres before falling in love. More than 40,000 former royalist military officers and other "enemies of the state" were banished to "reeducation camps" in a jungle gulag that, in proportion to the respective populations, was larger than Stalin...