Word: pearle
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...theft victim returned to her room to find pearl necklace and several gold bracelets missing, and a floor plan of Dunster House left behind on the floor, police said. No suspect has yet been found...
...time known as the "Pearl of Africa," Uganda has been beset by tribal rivalries ever since it won its independence from Britain in 1962. The once powerful and privileged Baganda tribe in the south has chafed under a central government and army largely controlled by Langi and Acholi tribesmen from the north. The discontent has given rise to a ragtag insurgent movement that has tried to disrupt Obote's efforts to reassert control. The government has taken brutal countermeasures. Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams...
...entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip II of Spain gave Mary Tudor in 1554. Liz and Dick made a couple of good movies together, including Virginia Woolf and The Taming of the Shrew, and some fine glitzy entertainments, like The V.I.P.s, but for the most part their professional collaboration was disastrous, resulting...
...poker game has lasted almost two years now. The players are the world's most populous nation, China, and that most weathered of empire builders, Britain. In the kitty is a gleaming pearl, the scintillant colony of Hong Kong, which London is due to return to Peking in 1997. The favored strategy so far has been caution. Through 19 rounds of official bidding and bluffing, the British have remained outwardly imperturbable, while the Chinese have countered with a variety of shrewd hands...
...contest was an exercise in hypocrisy ... What about that swimsuit competition, huh? According to Marks, when Williams first told him about the pictures in a tearful meeting two weeks ago, she made them sound about as raunchy as what an earlier age would have called figure studies: "A little pearl here, a few drapes there," as Marks says. They turned out, of course, to be grainy, but also down and dirty, an easy 85 out of 100 on the sleaze scale, the sort of material that has become a Penthouse specialty: hot shots of two hot women...