Word: savely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the junta originally said the revolution was necessary to save the monarchy, young King Constantine is now in exile in Italy. He fled Greece after attempting to seize power from the junta on Dec. 13, 1967. Under the 1952 document the king had a lot of influence on paper, just as the King of England does today, but his role was supposed to be largely symbolic. Constantine, however, interpreted the constitution literally and personally exercised a lot of power. The new document, on the other hand, strips the king of all authority and even states that he must...
...Kremlin have long been troubled by the challenge of great writers. When Tolstoy spoke out against famine or religious persecution in 19th century Russia, his voice so carried around the world that the czars took heed. In the early years of Communist rule, Maxim Gorky wielded his renown to save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork, Doctor Zhivago: "They...
...addition, Chrysler hopes to save money by cutting its two-year or 24,000-mile general warranty to one year or 12,000 miles and restricting it to the original owner instead of the first two. The company will retain the five-year or 50,000-mile "power train" warranty, which it devised in 1963 to cover defects in such things as the engine, transmission and differential...
...petition protesting the missing carpet is posted in each of the Radcliffe dorms and in Hilles. "They're turning Hilles into Lamont," it reads. "Help save the penthouse...
...pretty relaxed, so calm in fact that a white man can almost forget that all of the faces are black, save for a man who left a moment ago after telling a black man with whom he had been chatting to "stay out of trouble" in a friendly way. Just after he left, Deloros, the manager of the Sunset, came in and talked about the place. "It's like a club in a way," she said. "I have lots of parties here for the regular people ... we have pictures of the parties." She said that the police had few complaints...