Word: ruler
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...contrasts or similarities." Baroque Italian cupids by Guido Reni hang beside Isamu Noguchi's stainless-steel Man in Space. A gemlike 15th century English marble Pietà contributed by Seward Eric (P.A. '10), is set off by a terra-cotta Nigerian 20th century oba's (a ruler's) head, contributed by Whitney P. Foster...
...down an insurrection against a government which is falsely called a Communist insurrection. Although Communist-backed, it is still a bonafide insurrection against a government which is little more than an agency of the Soong family"? 4 Of Mussolini, in 1935: "So great a man ... so wise a ruler"? 5 Of Richard Nixon, after a 1950 California senatorial vote: "I'm very happy that Helen Gahagan Douglas has just been defeated by Richard Nixon"? 6 And who errs, no fewer than four times, in referring to the late Time Inc. editor-in-chief as Henry C. Luce...
Successor has been something of an enigma this year. This son of Bold Ruler, last year's two-year-old champion, and winter-book favorite for the Derby, am-assed $441.000 in winnings...
...position as ruler will likely involve more than nominal responsibilities. Following a palace revolt in 1950, the present king (the Prince's father) assumed complete authority for ruling the country...
...replacement of President István Dobi by Pál Losonczi, a farming expert who has served as Hungary's Minister of Agriculture since 1960. Both appointments reflect the desire of Party Boss János Kádár, the country's real ruler, to strengthen his own position. Kádár, who called back the Russian tanks during the 1956 uprising in Hungary, has shrewdly conciliated the voices of economic reform in recent years. He knows that in order to dampen opposition within his own party, he must placate the westward-looking...