Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exclaimed a Canadian housewife as she watched Queen Elizabeth and her husband exchange knowing glances and share a common smile before the television cameras this week. It was a pretty compliment, but obviously something of an understatement as well; whatever the young person who stands as the embodiment of sovereign authority to some 640 million of the world's people is, she cannot, in the very nature of things, be like "everyone else." Four cover stories in the past 28 years have traced the career of Queen Elizabeth from a girl of three (1929) to Woman of the Year...
...that this reticent and precise diplomatic technician, who never exceeds his authority but never hides behind its limitations if he sees a way of being useful, had done a good job in a frustrating position. He does so by hewing to a set of maxims. Among them: 1) "Between sovereign states, no solution is valid if the other fellow feels he has been wronged." 2) "Never abuse a temporary weakness in your opponent; perhaps you could get more, but it won't last...
...crossed by the figure 7. Painted on walls, tramped out in the snow, scratched on the sides of Nazi troop trains, chalked on Gestapo command cars, perpetually erased, perpetually reappearing, the omnipresent H7 was a perennial reminder to the people of Norway and to their occupiers that the true sovereign of their indomitable spirit was their exiled King Haakon...
...Scheme for Security. Elected governor on a fluke in 1954, re-elected last year, Orval Faubus was right where he wanted to be. He was the chief executive of a sovereign state; he hobnobbed with political bigwigs; he was, at last, looked up to. Orval Faubus planned to stay in Little Rock. Politics had given him position and respectability; he had nothing to go back to. But how would he hang on? Arkansas has a strong tradition against a third term for a governor. Moreover, his popularity was slipping: he had raised taxes, alienated his liberal followers by granting rate...
...independent territory, and British troops and planes had no business there. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon replied that under the 1920 Treaty of Sib (which the British have never published), the Imam, "a religious leader," had won a measure of autonomy, but that the Sultan was still sovereign over all of Muscat and Oman, and that therefore Britain was within its rights in answering his plea for help. The British pointed out tellingly that none of the Arab states now rushing to the Imam's defense had bothered to grant recognition to him in the two years since...