Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris he hobnobbed with Friedrich Engels, elegant, fox-hunting scion of a prosperous German textile tycoon. With him Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848), with him he shared his ideas, hopes, miseries and triumphs. Engels gave him implicit intellectual and political obedience, supported him most of his life and finally settled an annuity on him. In 1848 both Marx and Engels were neckdeep in the revolutionary wave that swept over Europe...
...murder of Editor Grana, scion of one of Lima's 60 reigning families and bitter editorial enemy of the dominant Apra Party, touched off the biggest political crisis since the Apristas came to power two years...
Agabus-Graves's account of Jesus' identity is not half so strange as his interpretation of Jesus' role. His royalty, as scion of both the House of David and the Herodian line, carried with it the mythical attributes of a "sacred king"-of Tammuz, the Babylonian Adonis, who annually died and rose again, whose festival occurred at the same time of year as the Jewish Passover. Jesus (says Agabus-Graves) was endowed with supernatural powers of mind and will, and he did in fact conquer death. But, far from ascending into Heaven after the Resurrection, Jesus...
...Quirinal, where Umberto had made his last farewells and was packing. The King apparently saw a chance, decided not to go-and royalist leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days the Assembly would convene in Monte Citorio palace...
Died. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, 66, scion of the samurai, son of the 1910 annexer of Korea, wartime commander of Japanese land forces in the southern regions (IndoChina, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines), former War Minister; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Johore, Malaya...