Word: rulers
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...from paltry, Wali is a Persian word meaning ruler. It is a title selected by the present Swati ruling family after it unified the local tribes and won British recognition in 1926. The Wall's grandfather enjoyed the title of Akhoond, a Persian word meaning religious teacher. But in the 20th century secular titles have displaced religious ones; the Wali of Swat, no longer Akhoond, is the only Wali among the Pakistani princes...
...already advised the F.L.N. leaders against demanding too much of France or striking vainglorious attitudes. By ignoring De Gaulle's grandiloquent words and accepting his concept of an Algerian Algeria, Bourguiba believes the F.L.N. can take over the political substructure of the state and become its ultimate ruler...
Died. Perry Wilbon Howard, 83, crafty Negro politician and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, who was the absentee ruler of the long-dormant state organization for more than 30 years while he ran a law firm in Washington, D.C.. and whose "Black and Tan" faction was ousted last year when a "Lily White" Republican delegation was seated at the Republican National Convention; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...escape with no more severe punishment than an abject letter of apology to His Imperial Highness (one can get into serious trouble by failing to use this title when referring to the King of Kings), for as late as 1955, when I left the country completely disenchanted with its ruler, the Ministry of Education maintained "prison rooms" for students "with advanced ideas of equality and democracy" in its compound adjoining University College and public floggings of such students were a frequent practice. The hanging of corpses will not keep the people of Ethiopia for long in ignorance and poverty...
...Over an orange squash, the Queen chatted cordially with bush-bearded President Archbishop Makarios, so recently a mastermind of the Cypriot revolt against the Crown. Flying on to New Delhi, Elizabeth was greeted thunderously by some 1,000,000 Indians who caught their first glimpse of a British ruler since Elizabeth's grandfather, George V, came to India in 1911 soon after his coronation. Somewhat unnecessarily, Prime Minister Nehru called on his nation to welcome Elizabeth warmly-but allowed that should she decide to go tiger hunting, "I am not going with...