Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birds, black birds, blue birds, and red birds, and they do not roost on the same limb or use the same nest." With the Constitution and God on his side, and Abraham Lincoln's "true views" thrown in for good measure, Talmadge is pretty well equipped to defend his sovereign state of Georgia against innovations...
...modern respect for the monarch begins with the long reign of Queen Victoria. Her five daughters were brought up in a court peopled with carefully sifted members of a nobility as rigidly aloof as the sovereign herself, while Europe's courts abounded in eminently eligible princelings. In today's new era of democratized monarchy, the old Queen's great-great-granddaughter Margaret is blessed with no such protection...
...blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed by Victorian standards. Margaret is a Princess, in a predominantly socialist-minded state, who has little chance of ascending the throne...
...other, while an overbearing French rascal stuffed the royal pockets with gold. The question before the people in South Viet Nam's first free national election was in effect a choice between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as their head of state or Bao Dai, their absentee playboy sovereign...
Grudging or not, it was a decision the Assembly could not easily go back on. This week, as Faure called a full-dress debate on the election issue itself, all parties knocked themselves out protesting their ardent approval for the idea of consulting the beautiful, sovereign people...