Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Danish Royal Navy Seal, he and girlfriend KATJA STORKHOLM NIELSEN, 24, splashed in the sun. Lingerie model Nielsen and the unmelancholy Dane lacked for a private paradise on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius; the usually discreet Scandinavian press avidly pursued them. Might Storkholm Nielsen someday be Queen? The official word from the court was that evergreen cliche: They're just good friends...
Neal Boortz, morning commentator for Atlanta's WSB, on the arrest of three local boys for attempted robbery, and a later fracas involving the boys' mother: "When the police came to her welfare house and knocked on this welfare queen's door and took her little predators away, this woman, who by the way was about the size of a phone booth -- she obviously puts her food stamps and welfare checks to good use! -- she was screaming like a stuck pig because the police were taking her little predator welfare tickets away! . . . Lady, your ((kids will)) go into the system...
Visitors to the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta last week were astonished to find it locked up tight. A sign posted a block away declared that tours of the two-story Queen Anne house had been "suspended until further notice," although park rangers were still conducting sidewalk lectures about the property...
...cold war is fading, so let's get down to a more basic conflict: Can the girls beat the boys? Ever since Queen Victoria reluctantly handed over an 8- lb. silver ewer to a team of swaggering American sailors in 1851, the America's Cup (as it was called from then on) has overflowed with machismo. It was not just the Vanderbilts, the Liptons, the Ted Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower...
...Church of England has relaxed its rules on divorce since it forced that choice on Edward. Now, Hillenbrand says, the Church merely forbids a would-be king to marry a Roman Catholic. (Mrs. Parker Bowles's husband is Catholic; she's Protestant.) But the prospect of a "Queen Camilla" remains "very, very far down the road," Hillenbrand says. For one thing, the prince must first succeed his mother on the throne to become King Charles...