Word: arrayed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...least for a while, the princes will continue to enjoy the dazzling array of perquisites that have been theirs ever since the British left India. Their palaces are guarded at government expense and maharajahs are entitled to salutes of anywhere from eleven to 64 guns. Even more important, the princes will be restored to their taxfree, government-provided privy purses, which range from a lordly $345,000 for the Maharajah of Mysore to a lowly $26.50 for the Talukdar of Katodia...
...Djakarta stadium for the Pope's Mass. A dozen warriors from Timor Island, wearing red headgear and waving machetes, did sword dances in front of the Pope's car as he was driven around the stadium track. An ecumenical procession, including Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists, bore an array of gifts -among them a copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism's universality. "Jesus Christ shared our human condition, making himself a part of the world of his time," Paul reminded his listeners. "In the same...
Sophomore Pete Briggs, starting his first varsity match at number two, was temporarily stunned by a four-wall serve from his opponent in the first game. "Wow!" yelled Briggs, but he wasn't surprised the next time it came and he displayed a fine array of shots to win easily...
THOUGH it provides little new information, "Harvard and Money" gives a comprehensive introduction to the politics of University finance. But it sidesteps most controversy, and the overwhelming array of questions tends to subdue the reader to a humble silence rather than rouse him to debate. The memorandum does demonstrate that rated on fiscal and political clout, the administration is feeble and the faculties potent. In addition, the "raw power of the alumni" identifies them as the sleeping dragons outside the everyday bounds of fiscal politics. As the Committee observes, the literal implementation of "power to the people" would make them...
Distant Landscapes. The Russians also made a bow to international cooperation in space. Lunokhod carried a French-built array of 14 corner-shaped mirrors designed to reflect long-distance laser beams from observatories in southern France and the Crimea. A similar reflector left behind by Apollo 11 on the Sea of Tranquility has already enabled U.S. scientists to measure the distance between earth and moon with an accuracy of less than a foot. Indeed, U.S. observers think that the Soviets might be interested in testing such a device as a means of navigating future moon robots...