Word: lioness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drowsing lioness at midday stirs in the grasses under a flat-topped acacia tree. She yawns, and her mouth is an abrupt vision of medieval horrors, of ripping white spikes. And then the mouth closes and she is a smug, serene Victorian dowager. She complacently surveys her young, who sleep near by, and subsides again into her torpor...
Orange's once easy-stepping social life has become a gilded fandango. Says Social Lioness Floss Schumacher, wife of retired Global Van Lines Chairman Edward Schumacher: "People are suddenly clamoring for white tie and tails." September will bring the opening of a 3,000-seat arts center in Costa Mesa, financed entirely by $71 million in donations...
...lioness in a den of Daniels," the London Times characterized her. When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stood before the House of Commons last week, opposition members and even backbenchers from her own Conservative Party hooted and jeered her for allowing U.S. planes to take off from English air bases for their bomb runs to Libya. The Prime Minister held her ground. "It is inconceivable," she stated, "that (the U.S.) should be refused the right to use American aircraft and American pilots . . . to defend their own people." The opposition was in full cry against her. Labor Foreign Policy Spokesman Denis...
Although the Prime Minister's actions set her apart from fellow European leaders and much of British public opinion, her stance of gritty independence was nevertheless familiar. Thatcher, as one government official put it, "is used to being the odd person out." That role last week, as lioness and Iron Lady, served the U.S. well...
...Pacific glared peevishly back at the Georgian dilettanti from their wooden dens and dirty straw. "Just arrived from Botany-Bay," ran a newspaper advertisement in 1789, "three new live animals for the amusement of the public, with that 3 singular animal the African Savage, a noble Lion and Lioness, a pair of 3 beautiful Leopards, a Lynx, a Sangwin, the Arabian nightwalker ... the Spotted Negro attends from eleven to seven in the evening...