Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sovereign Resources, Inc. plans to build a steel plant in Anderson County, Texas, to use low-grade East Basin ores and local lignite instead of the expensive metallurgical coking coal that a blast furnace needs...
...Congo last week found itself with a new political structure, a new name-and perhaps even a prospect of peace Among the island palms of placid Madagascar, most of the faction leaders me for a sweltering summit parley, agreed to split the nation into eight new sovereign states loosely joined. Tentative title: Confederation of Central African States...
...former, we have failed to come to grips with the latter. "Against an opponent known to consider nuclear war as the worse evil, nuclear blackmail is an almost fool-proof strategy." Juxtapose this statement with the following: "To rely entirely on the continued good will of another sovereign state is an abdication of statesmanship and self-respect"--and you have the central point of Kissinger's critique...
PERHAPS the most successful court painter of all time was Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velásquez. He had servants and slaves, was a palace chamberlain and a knight of the noble Order of Santiago. His sovereign, King Philip IV of Spain, thought so highly of him that he even consented to pose for him between battles at the front. But royal favorite though he was, Velásquez won greatness by his own unaffected naturalism. "I should prefer," he once said, "to be the leading painter of what are considered common subjects than the second best...
Tipplers & Cooks. It was on Aug. 30, 1623 that the 24-year-old painter from Seville walked through the great galleries of the Royal Palace near Madrid and knelt for the first time before his sovereign, the 17-year-old Philip IV. He won the King's heart right from the start, and from that time until his death at 61, he was a fixture of the court. Such a position might have stifled a man without genius, or tempted him into distortion through an effort to flatter his benefactors. For Velásquez it did neither...