Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who declares that "my first duty is to the sovereign who appointed me," his second to the palace, and his third to doing what he can for M.P.s...
...British exiled him to the distant Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean in 1956, and since has impressed the British and the Turkish Cypriots with his moderation in victory. But some embittered Greek Cypriots dislike Makarios, because the settlement specifically repudiated enosis (union with Greece) and left Britain sovereign over two bases on the island's south coast. One such dissident, an elderly, respected Nicosia lawyer named John Clerides, 73, presented his candidacy against Makarios. The situation was made to order for Cyprus' Communists. When Governor Sir Hugh Foot ended the four-year state of emergency last month...
...shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Neil H. McElroy, the first space age secretary of defense, resigned today and Philadelphia banker Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. was promoted to the top Pentagon post, McElroy is leaving after 26 months at the helm of the Defense Department...
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