Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news shocked, saddened, and in a strange fashion, inspired. A steadfast and modest King had died peacefully: this fact eased the sadness. The new Queen, young and popular, bore a proud name and the promise of a new era. In an age which prides itself on practicality, dismisses pomp as pretension, and regards royalty as an empty anachronism, the meaning of the Crown seemed suddenly clearer. Respect, earned and freely given, is its strength. Tyrants might demand but could not command loyalty so spontaneously offered. At a precarious moment in Britain's history, the passing of George...
...Famous have been the reigns of our queens," said Winston Churchill last week. Britain's two golden ages-the Elizabethan and the Victorian-bore the names of queens. Five queens have reigned before Elizabeth...
...longest reign in British history. After a lonely, overprotected childhood, she was awakened one night to be told that her uncle, William IV, was dead, and that she, at 18, was Queen. Three years later she married her shy, studious cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and bore him nine children, whose marriages allied England with the ruling houses of Germany, Russia, Greece and Rumania. In the first part of her reign, in the turbulent debates over the Reform Bill and during the unsettling changes of the Industrial Revolution, she quarreled frequently with her ministers. As she grew older...
Higbee's soundman lost the torpedo whine, but his probing sonar picked up a new contact: the metallic hull of a submerged vessel. Depth charges at the ready, the destroyer bore down on the contact. The captain ordered an uncoded message sent to CINCPAC at Pearl Harbor: "Attacked by submarine. Position: latitude 24° 36 min. north, longitude 121° 25 min. east. Am attacking submarine...
...Bore Room. By the. time the crypt was completed and the main part of the building started, the original money was almost gone. Eventually, Gaudi gave up his life as a fashionable architect, sold his house and horses, put all his resources into the church-building fund. He moved into the construction yard adjoining the church, slept on a cot in a small bare room. In 1914, when all funds were exhausted, Gaudi went on a door-to-door pilgrimage through Catalonia, begged enough money to keep working. Said Gaudi philosophically: "The landlord of this building has eternity before...