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June 12: Margaret Thatcher, dubbed Attila the Hen by critics, loses a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. A mysterious fire sweeps through the Parliament building. Citing the danger of ceding control of new American missiles in Europe to the "pink forces within the Labor Party," Thatcher imposes martial law and seizes power for an indefinite period...
...distributed to mosques throughout the country. One particularly fiery sermon attacked the Shah's October 1971 grandiose celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy. (The estimated cost: $11 million.) Khomeini denounced the "imperial feast" and urged the clergy to rise up against this "counterpart of Attila the bloody...
...known variously as "the Ayatullah," "St. Jane" and "Attila the Nun," a reference to the six months she once spent in a Berkeley, Calif., convent. As those sour nicknames show, the rise of Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, 46, chairman of NBC, has produced a predictable mix of envy, admiration, fear and resentment, laced with a dollop of old-fashioned male chauvinism...
...never expect her to be capable of playing a power tennis game. The diminutive five footer, with large, dark eyes and girlish bangs, hardly looks like she possesses a crosscourt forehand that could intimidate Attila the Hun. But it you don't believe Betsy Richmond can rip her groundstrokes, try standing across the net from her sometime. It's frightening...
Your image of a rugby player probably place him somewhere between Attila the Hun and Ivan the Terrible on your spectrum of nasty people. But I've roomed with three rugby players in my three years here and my fingers can still type, so I think we can dispel that notion...