Word: electoral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such mechanical extravagance became particularly popular in Germany. A gilded brass Krippe was presented in about 1589 to Elector Christian I by his wife, Sophia. When wound up, a globe on top opens, showing God surrounded by angels; a wall below slides back to reveal the manger, angels come down from heaven to music, Joseph rocks the cradle, the ox and ass rise from their knees, and the shepherds march in, followed by the kings...
...candidates-some 100,000 of them -campaigned right through election day. Ministers and imams, grocers and streetcar conductors, they handshook their way right up to the polling boxes, passed out slips of colored paper with their names printed in helpfully large letters. The most conscientious elector (compelled to vote, or pay a $3 fine), retiring to his polling booth with a list of candidates six pages long, had a tough time finding as many as 30 names that he could recognize and mark. It took President Nasser himself four minutes to vote, though the day before he had gone over...
...jewel-box theater was built during the reign of Elector Maximilian III Joseph (1745-77), of linden wood from the forests of Murnau, following the design of French Architect Francois de Cuvillies. In 1781 it was the scene of the first performance of Mozart's Idomeneo. But early in the 19th century the Bavarian court lost its taste for curlicues, and for a time the rococo theater served merely as storage place for scenery...
...state capitals, 531 Constitution-ordained members of the Electoral College gathered to perform a patently superfluous rite, their sworn duty to re-elect (457-74) Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon to the nation's highest offices. In Alabama, however, one elector chose to ignore the vote that sent him to college, wrote in for President, instead of Adlai Stevenson, the name of Alabama's states-rightist Judge Walter B. Jones. Thus history books will forever record the 1956 election results as: Eisenhower, 457; Stevenson, 73; Jones...
...produce the elusive gold, but also to discover what made Chinese porcelain superior to European kinds. In 1709 an alchemist named Boettger found the secret (based on using kaolin, a white clay that he found in his wig powder). He made the secret known to Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Augustus established a ceramics works at Meissen, destined to dominate European porcelain for the next 41 years...