Word: queen
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...that men could become gods, suggesting that "it's of course an ideal. It's a hope for a wishful thing," but later affirmed that "yes, of course they can." (He added that women could too, "as companions to their husbands. They can't conceive a king without a queen.") On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, he sounded uncertain, "I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about...
...late 1950s and '60s. He lived lavishly and consumed conspicuously: he owned Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and Stutz Blackhawks; bought a 96-passenger Convair 880 jet for $250,000, then spent $800,000 to have it customized, a project that included gold-plated seat-belt buckles and a queen-size bed. He once took a $16,000 flight to Denver to buy peanut-butter sandwiches...
...Horn, CEO of the Miss America Organization, explains that the decision "is about choice, individuality and allowing 17- to 24-year-old women to be who they really are," and is not, we repeat, not a ploy to boost ratings. The organization, concerned that the image of the beauty queen is a wee bit outdated, is giving the competition a make-over. Accordingly, the national office distributed to local organizers the following list of word substitutions to make during this year's pageant season...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP At 18, a girl named Victoria became Queen of England in 1837. Her 63-year reign, the longest in British history, spanned an era in which the country became the world's richest and most powerful. Colonial expansion reached its zenith; Britain ruled about 25% of the world's lands and population...
...nasty, enslaving Romans. Never mind that the Roman occupation of Britain was already crumbling by then and that it never extended to Ireland in the first place. Historical exactitude isn't something to be expected from a series with a prince who looks like Doogie Howser, and a Roman queen, Diana (Lisa Zane), who resembles a chic but hard-nosed tax attorney...