Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book that I wrote back in 1947 or '48 [Crusade in Europe, 1948], and in it I pointed out that there was going to be no peace, there was going to be no real strength among the free world, unless each was willing to examine its simple, sole, sovereign position and to see whether it could make some concessions, each to the others, that could make a legal or a law basis for settling disputes...
...nation could then be called to pronounce freely and in sovereign fashion on the constitutional reform that the higher interests of democracy demand...
...Sovereign? At first. Restaurateur Gustav Allgauer was breathing fire and brimstone and all manner of indignation, promising to "tell everything I know.'' Then, suddenly, he switched signals and wanted to know what all the fuss was about -meanwhile prudently surveying the $1.000,000 worth of damage with his insurance broker...
...national sovereignty to international control and regulation. Earth satellites are circling the globe now in about the same time that it takes to get from Brooklyn to The Bronx by subway.* Since Sputnik, the question 'How high is up?' has taken on vast new significance. While historically sovereign jurisdiction extends to the air above the land, it would be totally unfeasible for such jurisdiction to extend to outer space. International control will be imperative...
...cars and trailers and headed for the town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...