Word: heir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VC10 at the airport, "and she's coming to Lexington!" Ever a Briton, the Queen carried her own black brolly through the drizzle and immediately decamped to Lane's End Farm, the 1,400-acre estate of her host, Horse Breeder William Parish III. A Humble Oil heir, Parish met the Queen while in England for a polo match. Indeed, the theme of the trip was almost entirely equine. Her main sideline back home is the sport of monarchs: she owns 27 Thoroughbreds and came to Kentucky to check out possible 1985 studs...
...turbulence of the Civil Wars. A certain Lady Bankes successfully defended Corfe Castle against a 500-man assault. Many women went to war with their husbands or disguised themselves as men. They were immortalized in ballads like "The Famous Woman Drummer." Suddenly, women began to show "courage above t heir...
...Heir to his father's seat in this district, LoPresti has too easily succumbed to the comforts of friendship with the leadership. He has used his more than five terms to move up the senate ladder to Judiciary Chair--the third ranking Democratic post--while gradually losing touch with his constiuency...
...Heir to his father's seat in this district. LoPresti has too easily succumbed to the comforts of friendship with the leadership. He has used his more than five terms to move up the senate ladder to Judiciary Chair--the third ranking Democratic post--while gradually losing touch with his constituency...
...after nearly three decades in opposition, the Republicans discovered some of the burdens of governing. No longer could they snipe from the sidelines; they had to learn to make compromises and lubricate the legislative wheels. The experience has been sobering. Majority Leader Baker, the son-in-law and political heir of Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, warned at the outset that supply-side economics would be a "riverboat gamble"; now he worries about how to cut the resulting federal deficits ($195 billion last year). State Governors, of course, have long since struggled to balance budgets. The pragmatist wing...