Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banzais. At one place the crowd made a quick spontaneous rush from the curb, almost surrounding the imperial car. Nodding happily to them and waving his shapeless grey hat with the flourish of an old campaigner, Hirohito looked more like a successful and extroverted political leader than the scared sovereign...
Returning from the Foreign Ministers Conference in London 17 months ago, tired old George Marshall had told the nation: "It does not appear possible that paper agreements can assure a lasting peace. Agreements between sovereign states are generally the reflection and not the cause of genuine settlements...
...Supreme Being, the eternal and infinite Spirit, Creator and Sovereign of the universe. - Webster's International Dictionary...
Soon after dawn a Sherbrooke lawyer named Hertel O'Bready, acting for the Provincial Police, appeared on the stone steps of Saint-Aimé. From a small red book, he read the hard-fisted Riot Act: "Our Sovereign Lord The King . . . commands all persons . . . immediately to disperse . . . upon pain of ... imprisonment for life. God save the King...
Jawaharlal Nehru. Their talk, as one of them put it, often bordered on theological metaphysics. Finally, a satisfactory formula was found. It provided that India would indeed be an independent sovereign republic, but that she would nevertheless accept "the King as the symbol of the free association of [the Commonwealth's] independent member nations...