Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitch and battered away at their lines with enough controlled volume and barbarity to enliven every moment they were on stage. They were the only members of the company with enough vocal power to really make use of what Marlowe gave them, and I will not soon forget the sovereign articulacy this pair displayed in the infamous "braining scene...
Tshombe himself professed fear that the U.N. might be preparing to attack Katanga again, cabled the Security Council that he was prepared to negotiate a peaceful settlement with anyone who accepted "the existence of Katanga as a sovereign and independent nation." He added: "To prevent further bloodshed, we request your intervention to halt the invasion of Katanga...
When two or more sovereign powers are uncommonly harmonious, it is either because one is able to dominate the others or because all are united against a common enemy...
...Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies her as a foreign monarch. And on the royal route down Kwame Nkrumah Avenue to Kwame Nkrumah Circle, past Kwame Nkrumah Cooperative College, scores of signs read "Long Live Osagyefo"; only...
...France knows well that you are a sovereign who is essentially charitable toward his people," said Charles de Gaulle to visiting Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran. Anyone who can count palaces also knows that the charitable Shah is immensely wealthy. Until he began parceling out the royal estates to needy peasants ten years ago, his lands alone measured almost 2,000,000 acres and included 2,000 villages. In 1958 the Shah set up the Pahlevi Foundation (orphanages, hospitals), and last week he transformed part of the foundation into an irrevocable religious trust. In the process, a list...