Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heir to the Egyptian throne, by giving him free access to the consulate kitchen while the boy's militant father was trying to starve him into a semblance of manly vigor. Sixteen years were to pass before Said and De Lesseps met again. Then, pudgy Said was the ruler of Egypt and Ferdinand had resigned from the consular service. Said Pasha invited De Lesseps to come to Egypt, was quickly won over to the canal project...
Working out its new policy for the Middle East, the U.S. has sighted on Saudi Arabia's King Saud as a Middle East ruler with a close grip on reality. How close the grip and how important the ally was intimated when President Eisenhower announced that in welcoming Saud to Washington this week for a three-day state visit, he would depart from his long-standing custom. Instead of greeting the King on the White House steps as he has done in the past with other chiefs of state, Ike will go to Washington's National Airport, welcome...
...precisely the opposite circumstances, the Moslem ruler o-f predominantly Hindu Hydera bad was opposed to joining ladia. The Indian army simply moved in and grabbed the place, has held it ever since...
...spiritual double, a concept that can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed that every man had a soul (ka) which was his exact double. Often in the portrait of a king there was a little man behind the king with the ruler's features and dress...
What Author Descola calls "the prodigious curve of this incomparable destiny" begins with a child abandoned on the steps of a church in Spain. It passes through the forming of his expedition in Panama, his defeat of the Incas and his majesty as a marquis, ruler of "the empire of the sun." It moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster...