Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...River Thames 20 miles from London lies Runnymede, where King John in 1215 fixed his seal to a strip of parchment that Winston Churchill later called "the most famous milestone of our rights and freedom." That document was Magna Carta (Great Charter). Last week scores of bewigged and berobed British judges, in the company of dignitaries of foreign lands, gathered in London to celebrate Magna Carta's 750th birthday. The ceremonies were somber and simple. Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies reminded the listeners that Magna Carta established that "the law is king." And American Bar Association...
...yellow fever and the rest thrown into disarray. In 1804, a former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles...
Each bronze panel, rough-edged and scratchy like parchment sketches, contains a different intimation of mortality. At the top (see opposite) two large panels picture the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the Virgin Mary, her body supported by two angels before its assumption into heaven. Below (see overleaf), Manzù evokes scenes of death from the sacred history of the church-Abel clubbed by his brother Cain, St. Joseph waiting calmly for the ebbing of life, the first Christian martyr St. Stephen being stoned by a Jerusalem mob, Gregory VII dying on his papal throne. The agony...
TOLEDO. Spanish Chef Francisco Gon zalez from Madrid's Jockey Club turns out fine food (sea bass in parchment, tournedos, partridges with grapes of Almeria). Like the rest of the Spanish pavilion, the decor is elegant, and there is a small armada of trim, bolero-jacketed waiters. $5-$25. The pavilion's No. 2 restaurant, the Granada, serves an all-Spanish menu that features cold gazpacho soup, paella, sangria (red wine with soda) at slightly lower prices than the Toledo...
What were the criteria of victory? All was explained on a yellowed sheet of parchment locked within the judges' envelope. Had contestants noted, for example, that "Chocolates," "Elsie," "Parietals," and "Joust" were grossly misspelled? Had they recognized that "Bacterium" is singular, whereas "Cocci" is plural...