Word: scepter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their weight behind an eccentric Baluba chief named Albert Kalonji, and went right on mining diamonds while the Congolese central government floundered helplessly in Leopoldville. Wallowing in Forminiere's lavish tax and dividend payments, the bearded Kalonji donned a diamond-studded crown and leopard apron, found himself a scepter, and dubbed himself Kasai's King Albert...
...balance." The world is riddled with "mysteries of injustice, disasters in excess of guilt." After his agonizing ordeal, Job "gets back double the number of she-asses; so he should, for God has enacted upon him a parable of justice. Oedipus does not get back his eyes or his scepter over Thebes...
Will You Love Me Tomorrow (The Shirelles; Scepter). A nighttime lament by a new female quartet that throbs its sentiments with rough tenderness. That "love light in your eyes'" may not survive the dawn, but it has booted the Shirelles to the top of the pop charts...