Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tournament, one of Boston's most unusual sporting events, featured the top players in women's tennis--Chris Evert Billie Jean King (who won the doubles), Margaret Court, and Virginia Wade...
...Majesty's Opposition unexpectedly showed up on a folksy BBC disc-jockey show last week. If she were to become Prime Minister one day, asked the interviewer, would she have to be a good butcher? "I don't know whether I am a good one," Mrs. Margaret Thatcher replied. "I'm a reluctant one. But I recognize that this is one of the tests of leadership." Then, referring to her selection of a new shadow cabinet, she added: "I had a horrid day on Tuesday having to tell people [my decisions] when I could see disappointment written...
...irony of her victory is that in many ways, Margaret Thatcher seems to be Ted Heath's female Doppelgänger. Although her garden party hats and porcelain-voweled laments over "the twilight of the middle class" belie it, Mrs. Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath...
...choice of Margaret Thatcher is the greatest gamble in the history of the Tory Party," said one former Conservative Cabinet minister. "We will either win magnificently or lose disastrously. I see nothing in between." Her right-ward-ho spirit might have more appeal to voters weary of social and economic complexities than her liberal colleagues imagine. But to hedge the bet, they are already taking measures to prevent Mrs. Thatcher from stacking her shadow cabinet with fellow right-wingers...
...Margaret Thatcher revive Britain 's Conservative Party? Her cure is a brisk dose of Tory principles, laid on smartly with a no-nonsense schoolmistress 's rod. A sampling of the leader's views...