Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the court will hand down an historic ruling. One traditional clue, though, is the appearance of the Justices' wives, so there was a rustle of anticipation in the crowded courtroom just before 10 last Wednesday morning at the sight of Cecelia Marshall, Marjorie Brennan, Mary Ann Stewart and Elizabeth Stevens. The wives had arrived...
...three places farther on in the alphabet, i.e. D replaces A; E replaces B. But no matter how clever they may have been, the codes of antiquity-or of more recent times-rarely withstood the efforts of skilled code breakers. Mary Queen of Scots was ordered beheaded after Queen Elizabeth's chief spy intercepted and decoded Mary's letters, which revealed that she was plotting against Elizabeth. In World War II, the U.S. victory in the Pacific and the defeat of the Third Reich were partly due to the cracking of Axis military codes...
There were no parades on camelback and no banners across the winding Amman streets. The wedding of Jordan's King Hussein and Nur el Hussein (Light of Hussein), nee Elizabeth Halaby in Washington, was a quiet family affair. In a four-minute Muslim ceremony at the palace of Hussein's mother, the blue-suited groom, 42, and his Dior-and-diamond-bedecked bride, 26, exchanged vows in Arabic. Those present, all male according to Islamic practice, included Lisa's father, former Pan Am Chief Najeeb Halaby...
...Elizabeth Rogers...
...illusion, which is of course just as good. They have been transported into another medium where information and images are permanently (or for years, anyway) stored. In the formula of Historian Daniel Boorstin, they have "become well known for being well known." A classic of the category is, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Who, outside of her family and friends, would have the slightest interest in her were she not phosphorescent in her sheer famousness...