Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people are getting the feeling that the President is throwing his weight around. He's doing this damage to himself, and it could turn out to be our strongest asset." Kennedy's action in the steel crisis, he said, was "more characteristic of Louis XIV than of the President of the U.S." National Committee Chairman William Miller said that if Teddy Kennedy is elected, "he may nudge Bobby out as second man. He's the only Kennedy to go through Harvard twice." The committeemen unanimously approved a new statement of party principle drawn up by congressional Republicans...
...VIII MWF at 3 Th., May 24 IX MWF at 4 Th., May 24 X TuThs at 8 Tu., June 5 XI TuThs at 9 Sat., May 26 XII TuThs at 10 Mon., May 28 XIII TuThs at 11 Mon., June 4 XIV TuThs at 12 Wed., May 23 XV TuThs at 1 Tu., June 5 XVI TuThs at 2 Tu., June 5 XVII TuThs at 3 Fri., June 1 XVIII TuThs at 4 Fri., June...
...solving the Algerian problem. Never humble, even in adversity, De Gaulle will not yield to the reasoning of his opponents "that if he succeeds in Algeria, he will no longer be necessary." Instead, the French people will be reminded of their debt to the man who might adapt Louis XIV's reputed maxim to read La nation...
From time to time, real life apparently decides to put fiction's eye out and creates characters like Byron, monarchs like Louis XIV, and families like the Rothschilds...
...Gaulle, by contrast, is in the non-ideological military tradition of modern France; the conception of himself as a latter-day Louis XIV bulks larger in him than the Army thought when it helped bring him to power in May, 1958. The Centurions clearly sides with the army (against Gaullist-Louisism): for M. Larteguy, the revivification of the French army has a much more specific ideological purpose than re-capturing la gloire...