Word: throned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THRONE OF SATURN by Allen Drury. 588 pages. Doubleday...
...when the Memoirs end, Madame de La Tour du Pin trailed her diplomat-husband from The Hague to Turin. Even in old age, revolutionary ups and downs were the norms of their lives. When Aymar became involved in a plot to place the Due de Bordeaux on the throne in 1831, both parents spent time in prison out of sympathy, then joined him in exile...
...sang for a minute and then quit." Kennedy was less patient with Poet Robert Lowell's insistent recitation of The Education of Henry Adams-and finally retreated to the toilet. Lowell indignantly recalled the Sun King's lamentable habit of giving audiences from a toilet throne. "If you were Louis XIV, you wouldn't mind," Lowell shouted through the closed door...
...breed that will never return. In the 13th century, Doctor of the Church Albertus Magnus held that there were nine choirs of angels, "each choir at 6,666 legions, and each legion at 6,666 angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with Lucifer, leaving 266,613,336. Angels are sexless and cannot breed, so this population achieved Z.P.G. at the instant of creation. (Hebrew tradition disagrees; according to the Talmud, new angels are born with every word God speaks...
...Stronger Throne. During the parley, Hussein and Allon conversed in Arabic and English. The opening topic was peace. In the past few weeks, Israel has held a cursory discussion with United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Allon asked the King whether Jordan might be interested in carrying on peace talks with Israel, either through Jarring or directly. Hussein acknowledged that conditions have changed since the death of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and that his throne is stronger as a result of Jordan's civil war. But he held that the time was not ripe for unilateral discussions. Even...