Word: thousand
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After three years of fighting and two years of intermittent haggling, the Korean war neared its end, only a few thousand yards from where it had begun. There was no victory. At a staggering cost in life (including 24,000 Americans killed) and property, the United Nations had upheld a principle: aggression had been repulsed. Another principle, unification of a divided country, would have to wait...
...himself. He must sign almost every important record and document (but not degrees) that students need to officially be students. Every time he signs Kennedy records the fact on a little clicker on his desk. In a recent academic year, he saw the total rise to five thousand seven hundred and thirty-one. He quickly bought himself a signature stamp...
...broad transepts of Westminster Abbey, a thousand peers and ladies sat, clothed in velvet and miniver, dazzling in their show of decorations won in peace and war. In the nave, the chivalry of empire unrolled like a Bayeux tapestry. Music played, yet over 7,000 subjects, gathered to honor their Queen while worshiping their God, a hush of dedication hung like a prayer...
Trumpets stabbed the air, and as one, a thousand peers and peeresses rose and put on their coronets. Outside (and across the Commonwealth, and wherever there were British ships), bells pealed and cannon roared...
George grew up to be a good King who ruled wisely over his subjects (without governing them) during some of the most searching times the thousand-year-old British monarchy had ever faced. Crowns and dynasties went down all round him. Among the victims were his own cousins "Willy" (Kaiser Wilhelm II), "Nicky" (Czar Nicholas II) and King Alfonso of Spain. But with George V as its dutiful symbol, the British monarchy came through the quarter-century stronger than ever...