Word: elba
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That was England in 1814, after Napoleon had been packed off to Elba, but England only in her most sensational aspect. After two decades of war, she was still the richest nation in the world and in many ways the most attractive. Yet she was changing fast. Between industrialism and the effects of the Napoleonic wars, England would never be the same again...
...edited and organized the Napoleonic hodgepodge. Pruned of its grossest irrelevancies and chronologically reassembled, the Memoirs now sweep the reader in a hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...
Back from Elba. Defiantly, Miss Li campaigned as an independent candidate. But the Kuomintang cracked down: since she was still a party member, she could not run without party approval. Miss Li resigned, but the leaders refused to accept the resignation. "Illegal and undemocratic," squealed Miss Li. But when ward bosses rallied round and offered to start a write-in vote for her, she refused. "Thanks, thanks," she said, "but in the end you must vote for the party's choice...
Such self-sacrifice moved the party to forgive Miss Li. She burst back into the campaign by hiring a plane to drop 50,000 leaflets. Cried one of her fans: "She's like Napoleon come back from Elba." But her opponent, Miss Liu, tearfully pulled a few wires. Result: the day before election, Miss Li's name was scratched from the list of candidates. "I'm so mad!" quivered Miss...
...sentence that reads the same, forward or backward. Famed example: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" (apocryphally attributed to Napoleon...