burgomaster
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Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.
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The burgomaster, feeling his responsibilities, grew nervous and asked for police reserves; he was promised 30 men for Sunday morning.
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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.
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Four days later the burghers of Copenhagen, with the burgomaster at their head, overthrew the arrogant Danish nobles, and made Frederick III absolute monarch over Denmark and Norway.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
