Word: titular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...titular head of the crucial economics ministry, Wilson replaced supercautious Michael Stewart, 60, with Labor's fastest-rising star: lanky Peter Shore, 43. Though Wilson made it clear that he will run the show, Liverpoolreared, Cambridge-educated Shore will wield considerable power in shaping Britain's economic destiny. A left-of-center intellectual, Shore is a former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry...
...meeting with Athenagoras, primate of Orthodoxy, was clearly the main purpose of the Pope's visit. In large measure, the diffident reception accorded Paul reflected Turkish dislike for Athenagoras, the titular spiritual leader of Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, whom the Turks despise. In retaliation against Greek Cypriot "atrocities," the Turks have expelled many of the country's Orthodox believers, even hinted that Athenagoras, although a Turkish citizen, might some day be forced into exile...
Gift from Constantinople. The most striking aspect of leronymos' proposed reformation was his avowed willingness to improve relations between the Greek church and its titular overseer, Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople. Greece's archconservative hierarchy has long been at odds with Athenagoras, largely because of his interest in healing Orthodoxy's centuries-old breach with Rome. Unlike the retired Chrysostomos, the new primate is an active ecumenist who has been a delegate for the church of Greece at several interfaith councils. Reflecting what may well become a new era of good feeling in Mediterranean Orthodoxy, Athenagoras last...
Ojukwu thinks I'll be just a titular head and sign the papers for him. I will like hell. -Lieut. Colonel Yakubu Gowon
...different in the spring of 1963, Mrs. Hicks might never have delivered the speech she gave Monday night, and might not even be sitting on the School Committee today. But in 1963, during the second year of her first School Committee term, Mrs. Hicks was chosen committee chairman, hence titular head of the entire school system. She had been elected to the Committee in 1961, considering herself a reformer. Recently she told an Atlantic reporter that she had run for the School Committee because of a long family interest in civic affairs (her father was a prominent Boston judge...