Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed by a Red army general, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. This led to a rush of speculation that Dictator Malenkov had called in the army to break Beria's secret police and that the generals and marshals henceforth must be regarded as the chief power behind the throne in Moscow. Eight Red army men also sat on the supreme court bench that tried Marshal Tukhachevsky and half a dozen other high-ranking officers in the purge...
...Apostolic Palace to see that no intruders were present. Then, as Camerlengo (prelate in charge of the Holy See between pontificates), Cardinal Pacelli personally locked the big bronze door. Next day, after the Mass of the Holy Ghost, he marched with 61 other cardinals into the conclave. On 62 throne chairs around the Sistine Chapel, facing Michelangelo's Last Judgment, sat the princes of the Church. One by one, the cardinals advanced to the altar, knelt in prayer, and then slid their ballots into a chalice...
...Juana, the third of five children born to Ferdinand and Isabella, became heir to the throne after her only brother died and her older sister married the King of Portugal. Another sister was Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife (it was to divorce her and to marry Anne Boleyn that Henry defied the Church of Rome). Isabella married off Juana to Philip the Handsome of Austria, when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella...
...least she lived, second in line to the throne (after her younger half brother Edward VI), the growing hope of England's "Old Catholics" and a vital pawn in the game of Anglo-Spanish diplomacy. When she mounted the throne at 37, she was a "small and thin.'' unattractive woman, old for her age and with "a loud and deep voice" in which she had "never learnt to lie," but only, as she said, "to be plain with you." She had one fixed intention: to restore the old religion. But she swore "graciously not to compel...
...nevertheless took to modern inventions like a child let loose in Toyland, eventually had his palaces festooned with telephones and radios, his courtyards teeming with fleets of automobiles, including 20 sand-proof, peek-proof Cadillacs, equipped with electric fans, and a mahogany-paneled trailer, which boasts a throne room. He also acquired a DC-4, built to accommodate his custom-made wheel chair...