Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, Princess Margaret, fun-loving, 18-year-old younger daughter of Britain's King George VI, did the galleries, appeared circumspectly at a nightclub, danced until 2:30 a.m. at an embassy ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue her on a drive into the country. Frenchmen said of her: "Qu'elle est belle!" Reporters noted with approval that in nine public appearances she had worn nine different costumes. At the airport last week, when it was all over, Margaret murmured politely to her hosts...
...successfully performing a delicate operation called lumbar sympathectomy, Edinburgh's Professor James Learmonth was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by the only man who can bestow the honor: his grateful patient, George VI...
King George VI, 48, sat in an armchair at a formal investiture, while 300 people filed by him in the ballroom of Buckingham Palace. It was his first full state ceremony since his ailing leg began acting up last November...
...turned to the scientific study of his Polynesian kinsfolk, traveling all over the Pacific to record their customs and help solve their problems. He joined the Bishop Museum in Honolulu as a field anthropologist and became its director in 1932. In 1946 he was knighted by George VI...
...Viña last week, only 30 U.S. tourists took the sun. Distance and travel difficulties were barring most yanquis from the pleasures of the southern summer. Instead, they were pouring into Mexico at the rate of 20,000 a month, and spilling over into Guatemala...