Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every writer in Paris. They included all those troublesome philosophes whose skeptical criticisms of the Bourbon monarchy contributed to its downfall, yet this diligent police analyst never used the term philosophes, never considered them as a group, never imagined that any writers could have political importance. Woe to the ruler who relies too much on police intelligence...
...DEATH OF THE Soviet Union's most mysterious and short-lived ruler Yuri V. Andropov was announced last week, leaving his successes a myriad of domestic and foreign policy problems, not the least of which is the current chill in superpower relations. While it is hard to mourn a man for all intents and purposes dead for several months--who became a frightening parody of the fabled Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984. Andropov's death serves as a depressing reminder of how little progress the U.S. and the Soviet Union have made in this decade...
...time, as models and entertainers that is not their function. They are simply in business within a free market economy. Their careers need neither inspire nor offend anyone. Armed with this independent outlook. Stratten could have become president of her own "company" (i.e. her professional self) and ruler of her own life; instead, she became one man's pawn and victim...
...matter of fact, for more than 300 years, Sevcenko says, scholars have generally thought that a 10th-century manuscript chronicling the life of Basil, a ninth-century Byzantine emperor, was written by the ruler's grandson, the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus...
...Lord, our Heavenly Father, the high and mighty ruler of the Universe, Who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold and bless Thy servant, Franklin, chosen to be the President of the United States...