Word: sovereignly
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...pound because that was the number of pennies that weighed a pound.* Shillings joined Offa's awful system in the 16th century, and that basically formed the current currency setup-though such denominations as the florin (2 shillings), half crown (2½ shillings), guinea (21 shillings) and sovereign (approximately 3 guineas) came along at various times...
...injured student cannot sue a public school district. Hurt during a required high school wrestling class, Terry Lee Smith filed a $35,000 damage suit against his Ray town, Mo., school district. By barring the suit, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the doctrine of "sovereign immunity," which is rooted in the ancient adage that "the king can do no wrong." Thus, no American Government or its political subdivisions, including school districts, can be sued without its specific consent. Though some do consent, most states insist that school immunity is necessary to prevent public funds from being diverted to private plaintiffs...
...punish him a second time by forcing him to accept substandard wage. Again he argues from history: "Was not one of the great gains in the progress of civilization the conversion of taxes in kind to taxes in money? The elimination of the power of the noble or the sovereign to exact compulsory servitude...
...problem of not being "ordinary" and yet not seeming too aloof-of lowering the barrier between sovereign and subject and yet not "staining the mystery," as Sir Harold Nicolson put it-is probably the greatest public relations problem of Britain's royalty. Scandinavia's rulers have ignored this problem, on the whole, by opting for ordinariness. No one crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove...
...General of the United Nations. The Americans were complicating his life by bombing North Viet Nam, the Russians and French by refusing to pay their share of U.N. peace-keeping operations in the Middle East, the Congo and Cyprus. Besides, as nominal head of an organization composed of 121 sovereign states, he was, as he put it in September, when he announced that he definitely would not seek another term, merely "a glorified clerk." Yet last week, to the surprise of practically no one and to the relief of practically everyone, U Thant agreed to serve a second five-year...