Word: titular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sung, Communism's titular leader of North Korea, has been out of the news for months. Last week he popped up with a couple of choice quotes broadcast by Radio Peking: 1) the war, said Kim, is "turning favorably" for the Reds, who will ultimately "drive the aggressors out of Korea"; 2) when the U.N. forces retreated from North Korea last year, the Reds, said Kim, found the bodies of 150 children in an icy cave. Kim supplied details : "After the Americans drove them in and bolted the door, these children were starved and frozen to death. Practically...
...proposals were more impressive than the Administration's, though he had the advantage of being able to call for acts and programs he did not have to deliver on. Timed as it was, Governor Dewey's forceful speech put the prestige of the Republican Party's titular head behind all that President Truman proposed to do, and then some...
Over the ages, counts, princes and marquises have flourished and multiplied in Italy like olive trees. In the Italian view, a fancy title, like oil on a lettuce leaf, lends zest and flavor to a man's name. Italy's House of Savoy doled out titular rank in the Order of the Crown of Italy to almost half a million Italians. A janitor with 30 years' service-in a government ministry was virtually assured of a knighthood, and the right to be addressed as cavaliere...
...traveled too far, and seen too much, and talked to too many people to have the rigidly closed type of mind required of a top party militant in time of war. He is one of those international Communist bosses-France's Maurice Thorez is another-who retain titular leadership mainly because their names still ring strongly in the world's ears...
...Block. Titular principal of Coca-Cola's vast educational institution is ex-Democratic Boss James A. Farley, chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corp. But the boss of the Export Corp. is its president, slight, dapper James Curtis, who has spent nearly 27 of his 48 years with the company and whose gentle New Orleans drawl makes "Coca-Cola" sound like a whispered caress...