Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rumania, and onetime (1922-35) Queen of Greece; of a heart ailment, a month after she adopted the Marquis Marc de Savrat, her handsome, 33-year-old French equerry, gave him her family name of Hohenzollern; in Cannes, France. Elizabeth married the Greek Crown Prince in 1921, shared the throne with him when he became King George II of Greece (September 1922), fled to Rumania in exile when the late George was ousted after 15 months, rocked the Balkans by charging unfaithfulness and desertion, pouting, "I never wanted to be a queen," when she divorced...
...taste-which is open to question-the fact remains that it is dramatically unsound. While Charlton Heston, who plays Moses, and Anne Baxter, the princess, unquestionably make a handsome couple, their embraces shed no light on the problem of how Moses, portrayed as on the threshold of the Egyptian throne, becomes a prophet and the deliverer of an enslaved race. Like the spectacle, the romance only obscures the central problem of the story...
...Throne of Skulls. Montevideans' cheerfulness reflected not only the coming of spring but their confident, year-round belief that democratic, Nebraska-sized Uruguay is the earth's closest imitation of paradise. Beneath the remaining layer of fat stored up during Uruguay's Korean war wool boom, the economy is ailing, but most Uruguayans remain complacently sure that the country is somehow bound to muddle through. That is why there are some thoughtful citizens who seriously believe that what Uruguay needs is a wakeup, shake-up type of crisis...
...nation lived through crises aplenty in its turbulent, trigger-happy youth. Writing of the 19th century Uruguay that he knew as a boy, William Henry (The Purple Land) Hudson called the presidential chair a "throne of human skulls." But in modern Uruguay, Latin America's most solicitous welfare state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay...
...notions were pooh-poohed by his mother and most of her ministers, who worked stubbornly for an entente with Germany. Bertie's views did not prevail until the heirs of Bismarck made it clear that Germany intended to expand at Britain's expense. Bertie came to the throne in 1901, and from then until his death (1910) "there was scarcely a diplomatic move ... which did not receive his active help." What Author Cowles suggests is that Bertie, the monarch who preferred women to men and acted by hunch and instinct, ended by very nearly proving "that kingship...