Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrust-Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan -were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries...
...seduced a plump little French governess, discarded her after a year or so, left her in his will "five hundred pounds as some compensation of the injury." The illegitimate son she bore him turned out to be the sad apple of his eye. The sage of the minuet had sired a clodhopper. But Chesterfield was the last to admit...
...state representatives demanded investigation of the Alcoholic Beverages Commission yesterday, while local package store E. R. Sage Company has implied in a superior court appeal that political considerations have influenced the action of the State Board...
...Sage's claims that the A.B.C. refused to give it a license, while granting one to Stanley L. Moriarty, recently reappointed to a post in the State Treasurer's office...
...Where there's a Willis a way," replied the Shanghai Sage, "so if it's Caldwell, we might win: Harvard 38 Princeton...