Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis in Japan raised a red flag of danger where one should always be flying. Japan, heretofore considered a pro-Western bastion, was now a question mark: a sovereign nation not yet able to defend itself, a democracy not yet strong enough to repel serious, if sporadic, Communist infiltration. Japan's first duty was to pull itself together and get on with the economic and political future that lay in the full promise of its free institutions. The U.S.'s duty was to guarantee unequivocally that nothing should be allowed to interfere with that promise...
...justifiable determination to see Eichmann punished for his monstrous past. Ben-Gurion seemed to be unaware of the inverse racism implicit in his claim that Israel, as "the only sovereign authority in Jewry," had the right to seek out criminals guilty of offenses against the "Jewish people" anywhere it could find them. And he seemed equally unaware or indifferent to the fact that the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as one U.S. official pointed out, "is going to cause a serious loss of world confidence in the objectivity of the Israeli government...
Teleprayer. Full of subdued color, Dimbleby had a kindly plug or two for Queen Elizabeth's coachman, Joseph Cooze. He described the mounted Sovereign's Escort as "this lovely, twinkling jingle of breastplates," and back at Buckingham Palace, when a telescopic longshot followed the royal family as they left the balcony and got a candid peek at the Queen Mother mimicking a part of the ceremony, Dimbleby was propriety itself: "I think we ought not to stand and watch the royal family inside their own house any more...
...considered eligible to hang with the masters. Though France is represented by some of its most illustrious names, the fact remains that for such artists as Daumier, Degas and Manet, art always came in first, and horses only showed. But in England, from Charles II to Elizabeth II, the sovereign has been a patron of the turf (two of the exhibition's paintings came from the Royal Collection), and the commissioning of portraits was once almost as much a part of a horseman's way of life as racing or breeding or hunting. In the 18th and early...
There is no doubt at all that aristocratic Charleston, S.C. is among the fairest of U.S. cities, and it is certain that it is the proudest by far. How many Americans know (as Charlestonians do) that the Union (ugly word) consists of 50 highly questionable states and one highly sovereign city? And who else can go to bed at night with the comforting assurance that the Atlantic Ocean is formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers-right over yonder in Charleston Harbor? Above all, Charleston has its own language, a tongue completely beyond the comprehension of most...