Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual glib and grinning way, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev confounded Western newsmen at a British embassy celebration of the Queen's birthday by taking up rumors about his past purge victims, and talking about what might have happened to Politburocrat Mikhail Suslov, who, Polish Communists believe, is Khrushchev's No. 1 opponent in Kremlin councils...
...bench, relaxed and smiling, waving to friends and reporters. When his rivals, Swe and Nyein, entered to a storm of applause, U Nu cordially joined in. In his speech during the temperate six-hour debate, the Buddhist Prime Minister told a scatological joke about a king, his queen, and two domestic animals that convulsed the Deputies, and then won the biggest applause of the day by promising that "as long as I am Prime Minister, our neutrality policy will remain unchanged. I, too, believe Communists should never be put into power. As long as I am Prime Minister, I shall...
Held up by Middlesex traffic while driving Princess Anne to Windsor Great Park, bandanna-topped Queen Elizabeth II checked her right of way like any Levittown housewife meeting the 5:12, later dressed up in jeweled finery to catch the looth anniversary concert...
...items have given rise to such extravagant claims as royal jelly, the creamy substance produced by nurse bees to nourish the long-lived queen bee in the hive. When it came out, women swarmed around the beauty counters, attracted by ads that called royal jelly "the secret of eternal youth." More than a dozen cosmetic houses rushed to put it in high-priced creams, soaps, even lipsticks. (France's house of Orlane, reasoning that the bees got their jelly from flowers, went one better and put on the U.S. market a cream "created from the precious pollen...
...bought royal jelly had a right to feel stung. Reported the Los Angeles Better Business Bureau newsletter: "There is little evidence to support any significant therapeutic, cosmetic or nutritional value in the product for humans." Says Maison G. DeNavarre, chief chemist of Michigan's Beauty Counselors, Inc.: "Royal Queen jelly is not even for the birds. It is for the bees. It is a fad and does nothing for the skin...