Word: servante
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...Hero-Prince, Edward Golden was not always quite charming. Determined to do high deeds in Agassiz, he sometimes overacts with stock grimaces and attitudes, but on the whole he is worthy to waken Beauty. Claire Scott as the queen and Luay Barry as a servant both handled tiny parts in a handy fashion, and John Fenn rounds out the cast with a tidy, if undistinguished, performance as the king. Fenn's main claim to juvenile gratitude is a highly imaginative and decorative set plus more than routine lighting effects...
...distinction is drawn between secret and non-secret posts. To have associations with Communists or Fascists does not in itself bar a person from employment in the Civil Service, as long as his employment does not put him into a position to jeopardize vital state secrets. If the Civil Servant's qualifications make it possible, he is employed only on non-secret work. But if his qualifications are such that he can only be employed in a secret post, he is discharged from government service...
...inquisitorial type of investigation. There is, for example, the tradition that Parliamentary committees are appointed for only special, necessarily grave investigations. Shawcross believes that the British public would not tolerate an investigating committee with wide powers. Further, there is a Parliamentary tradition of not attacking a civil servant by his name as this would be considered an abuse of the privileges of the House of Commons since the man could not reply. Instead, censure is directed through the Minister of his department who may, of course, answer criticism...
...Portuguese people are now tired and skeptical and would adapt themselves to a reactionary king or a Communist dictator. For this "victory" we democrats will never forgive him . . . Like many other Portuguese youths trained by Mocidade Portuguesa, (Portuguese Youth State Organization), I was supposed to be an obedient servant. If I am not one, it is thanks to TIME and a few foreign books that helped me in my search for truth...
...escape the gloom of a dreary New England winter, the young girls of the neighborhood began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter of 1691-1692, the girls sat entranced by the fire-side and heard chilling tales of voodoo charms, witches...