Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more Kurt Schumacher's body failed, the stronger grew his will. From his bed, as from a throne, he dispatched lieutenants, issued orders, and whipped the Socialists into the most militant and best organized party in West Germany. He rose from his sickbed in time to campaign -workers wheeled him into meetings and carried him to the rostrum on their shoulders. His physical courage inspired his followers; his violence inflamed them. The Socialists polled nearly 7,000,000 votes. But it was not quite enough. The Christian Democrats polled slightly more. Not to Kurt Schumacher, the fierce and dedicated...
...elder relatives were not so fortunate. By tradition, the heir apparent to Britain's throne has first claim on the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall (an estimated $300,000 yearly) for his own uses, so young Charles could afford to cuddle his rabbit without worrying where his next shilling comes from. The rest of the royal family, even though the crown nominally owns huge chunks of revenue-bearing real estate, must still depend on parliamentary generosity for their livelihoods.* The royal wage scale, known as the Civil List, is drawn up within, the first six months of each...
...post-revolution clergy, are gripped by his grand aim to swamp evil "with a flood of good." Few of them can match the bishop's activity. A year ago, he was in Mexico contacting Spanish refugees. Later, in Portugal, he conferred with the pretender to the Spanish throne. Don Juan, and the exiled onetime leader of Spain's Catholic party, Gil Robles. Last month he was off to Rome, where the Pope received him twice. This week he was back in Madrid, busy as ever, holding conferences, discussing labor problems and teaching at his school. Church opinion holds...
Belgrave did not do this alone. Bahrein's little Sheik, Sir Sulman bin Hamad al Khalifah, who came to the throne in 1942, is a good ruler. He looks like Jordan's late King Abdullah, has the same dignified mien and dancing eyes. Sulman's memory is phenomenal: he remembers which oil driller's wife is having a baby. He takes all the newspapers, listens regularly to the Arabic radio broadcasts. When the Moscow radio calls Belgrave a "dictator" Sulman chuckles, twits his $9, 600-a-year adviser. From time to time, in his Rolls-Royce...
...across the Arabian sand and jebel. Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Soliman, trusted confidant of the King and the most powerful man in the country outside the royal family, would rather see 46-year-old Foreign Minister Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son, succeed to the throne. So would the British...