consul
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Most followed the lead of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the proconsuls of abstract expressionism, in energetically weaving fat tangles of paint over their yards and yards of canvas.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Stockholm for scientific talks, he set all Scandinavia agog by bluntly telling a Communist newsman: In the bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back to their respective stations hurried the proconsuls.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had come to mourn John Paul Vann, one of the nation's proconsuls in Viet Nam, who had died in a helicopter crash.
From Time Magazine Archive
The provinces were governed by proconsuls, several of whom were appointed by the Senate and the people; but all of them were carefully observed by the emperor.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir
Vocabulary lists containing consul
Before We Were Free
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The Roman Republic, Lessons 1–2
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Chapter 11: Rome: Republic to Empire
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