Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flats and luxury apartments, to celebrate their Lord's great act of deliverance-the Passover. It was the 3,271st anniversary, according to Jewish reckoning, of that dark night when the Lord moved through Egypt, striking down the firstborn, "from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon . . . and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." But each house of the children of Israel was marked, as the Lord had commanded Moses, with...
...Last week James Landon Knight, 49, got quite a bit more: for $1,500,000 he bought the Charlotte, N.C. News (circ. 65,508), thereby restoring the Knight group to five papers* and moving to the front page for the first time as the potential successor to the throne...
...none could see the irony that lay ready to bud-namely, that having achieved all they could desire in the way of puritanical austerity, the British would endure it only for a few years before inviting the sacrificed King's unsaintly son to ascend the throne as Charles II and enjoy his own again...
...decision had been implicit from the beginning, in the revolt that toppled the throne, killed the King and his pro-Western Premier, Nuri asSaid, and brought Kassem's army clique to power last July. The timing was what counted...
...private banker to Maximilian I, and Charles V was so heavily in his debt that Jakob once wrote him a saucy note: "May I remind Your Majesty that without my financial assistance you would not be sitting on your throne." As lenders to hard-pressed popes, Jakob and his brother managed papal finances in all of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Scandinavia...