Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pray that in all the deliberations here begun Thou wilt save us from pride of opinion, from intolerance and prejudice, and from lightly ascending any throne of judgment...
Last week the U.S. Senate met to consider censure action against Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and the ascension to judgment's throne was rocky indeed. Within minutes after the chaplain finished his opening prayer, Joe McCarthy was fighting the only way he knows how, with tooth, nail and knee, to make the debate one of the most acrimonious and personally bitter in Senate history...
...death leaves Iran without an heir presumptive. The Pahlevi dynasty began only with the Shah's father, a onetime army sergeant who seized the throne. The Shah himself has no sons. His five half brothers are the sons of princesses of the old rival Kajar dynasty, and are constitutionally barred from royal succession. Parliament can, however, shut its eyes and grant Iranian "quality" to one of the half brothers, making him eligible for the throne...
Died. Ali Reza, 32, younger brother of the Shah of Persia, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and heir presumptive to the Iranian throne; in a plane crash; in Iran's Elburz Mountains (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...things, Mammy was a madame who lavishly entertained in her elegant house (it cost $10 for a caller even to be considered for admission). Mammy's partner in many financial ventures was the fabulous Thom as Frederick Bell, who arrived in the West penniless and rose to the throne of Quicksilver King. In the end, when Mammy and Bell quarreled, she pushed him over a staircase railing to his death (the murder was never proved against Mammy before she died in 1904 at the age of 87). Author Holdredge's solidly researched story suffers from arid stretches...