Word: vassal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then a vassal state of the Turkish Sultans. Last week in Egypt, key to the Suez Canal. Britain's historic policy of dominating the now officially styled "Independent Kingdom of Egypt" rose up to knock spots off any moral case Britain has against Italian Imperialism in Ethiopia...
...union, which would make Germany our country's neighbor. Germany would obtain hegemony in Central Europe and the Balkans and only a crazy man could believe that Germany would halt at our border. She would continue her march to the Adriatic and Saloniki and Yugoslavia would become her vassal...
...Vassal house at 94 Brattle Street, dating from 1642 and one of the most elaborate of the fine Tory homes, will be on display along with its collection of choice and rare American furniture...
Japanese who assassinate their Premier, always from the most patriotic motives, now enjoy such popular éclat that the Orient marveled last week at the excessive modesty with which No. 1 Assassin Konichi Nakaoka emigrated from Japan to the wilds of her vassal state Manchukuo...
Keats loved her at first sight. "The very first week I knew you, I wrote myself your vassal," he recorded. It was not for her wit, for he had more; nor for her money, since he planned to win their bread as a surgeon; nor for her beauty--"her nostrils . . . a little painful," he wrote, "her mouth is bad and good, her Profile better than her full face . . . her hands bad-ish, her feet tolerable." He did not even love her for her guile: they had many a tiff over a ball-room brave, and he reproached her with being...