Word: whim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will or the whim of top union leaders can shake the U.S. economy. Yet it begins to seem that even the mightiest unions cannot hold a simple election without charges of fraud...
Gyges owed his accession to a strange whim of his predecessor, Kind Kandaules, who forced Gyges to gaze secretly at the queen in the in the nude. The queen noticed Gyges, however, and told him he must either kill her husband and become king, or himself be killed. He killed the busband and became king...
...begins not with himself but his ancestors. With warmth, wit and antiquarian zeal he traces them through four generations of the solid, comfortably moneyed professional class that saw the flowering of the British Empire. Waugh himself was born near London in 1903, given the name Evelyn "from a whim of my mother's. I have never liked the name." He borrows an anecdote from much later in life to illustrate why: "Once during the Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from any white woman, preceded by a signal apprising them of' the arrival...
...Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years of life, during which he will unlock all the secrets of the universe, command all earthly power, be granted every whim of pleasure. The request makes Faustus an archetype of Western man, with his aspiring mind, towering ambition, compelling curiosity and vaulting pride. With Mephistophilis to do his bidding, Dr. Faustus conjures up spirits, becomes invisible, plays pranks on the Pope, and makes love to Helen of Troy ("Was this...
...hands-off policy by the Fed eral Government, promised farmers the "maximum opportunity to exercise their own management decisions," while resisting imposition of further federal controls and "all efforts to make the farmer dependent, for his economic survival, upon either compensatory payments by the Federal Government, or upon the whim of the Secretary of Agriculture...