Word: queene
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...finest navy the world had ever known, and its splendor was never more stirringly displayed. The year was 1897, the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, and the Royal Navy assembled at Spithead, off Portsmouth, for review. Decks scrubbed white, brasswork gleaming, wheelhouse glass sparkling, the ships stretched along the coast in four lines seven miles long. There were 173 in all, including more than 50 battleships. At the same time, 160 other units of the Queen's Grand Fleet were on patrol in every sea in the world...
...first sighted in 1592 by Captain John Davis, whose ship named Desire was driven off course by what he called "a sore storme" and found haven "among certaine isles never before discovered." Two years later, another Briton, Sir Richard Hawkins, proclaimed the islands "Hawkins' Maiden-land" in honor of Queen Elizabeth I and "in a perpetual memory of her chastitie." Some maintain, however, that Magellan's expedition first sighted the islands in 1520. Others speculate that the discoverer was an anonymous Viking, or even a roving Fijian or Chinese...
...Today the serious part of a global war might last no longer than several passionate kisses. That is why some bystanders witnessing the war of the Falklands find themselves almost charmed by its stately pace, its long preliminaries-the fleet steaming off from England as the Prime Minister quotes Queen Victoria; the weeks at sea as the foreign offices indulge in truculent communiqués and atavistic displays of national plumage. (The long interval between the patriotic eruption and the moment of actual contact also opens up room for negotiation.) A world apocalyptically armed has absorbed the notion that there...
...steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press secretary, and White House Speechwriter Landon Parvin: "Even though they tell me that I'm no longer Queen/ Did Ronnie have to buy me that new sewing machine/ Secondhand clothes, I'm wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than anyone else, it seemed, when his wife accompanied the lines "Even my trench...
...were preparing a TV movie about a working-class mother of three who with her Catholic conscience whether to have an abortion, what would you choose? Right: Vanessa Redgrave. And if you were English-speaking drama's greatest actress - if you played Mary Queen of Scots and Isa Duncan and Jean Brodie and Fania Fenelon - and you were offered the part a Nashville housewife, what would you do? Right: you'd take...