Word: maidening
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...wooden "maiden" sits atop the door to Leavitt & Peirce. This past Tuesday, the maiden's right arm was mysteriously returned about two years after it abruptly disappeared, according to Extension School students George L. Wren, who supervises the store's renovations...
...Balladur looks beclouded in Corfu, another conservative, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, will be beaming. The media billionaire turned politician should get a cordial greeting at his first summit, following his successful maiden foreign trip to Bonn last week. His vanity-plate party, Forza Italia, won big with 30.6% of last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked...
...broken." This has included actual applause in response to speeches -- no longer only a dignified "Hear, hear" (in Afrikaans, Hoor, hoor) -- and the occasional ululation, if not from the floor, then from the public gallery. M.P. Jurie Mentz, a white member of the Inkatha Freedom Party team, delivered his maiden speech entirely in Zulu, and the I.F.P. leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, followed him in impeccable English...
...choice for Attorney General, Kennedy had not paid required Social Security taxes on the wages of a nanny. In February 1993, Kennedy did pay $1,352.52 to settle the 1992 bill -- but he did it with a cashier's check supposedly drawn by "Leslie Gail McRae" -- his wife's maiden name (they are engaged in what a friend calls "bitter" divorce proceedings...
...boring movie, since every evil-looking character can quickly be dubbed a "goner." Why wait two hours to see it happen? The dialogue is almost nonexistent, unless witless one-liners count. For instance, a fair young maiden says to Aramis (Charlie Sheen) during a rather carnal Bible lesson: "When you started talking bout original sin, I lost control and became impassioned...