Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enduring wage freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said he last week: "One man doesn't deserve that much. I don't care if he's the Queen of Sheba...
...Bulgarian leadership that was not Markov's worst crime against the state. On Radio Free Europe the defector offered a description of Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov, a smiling brute on the order of Nikita Khrushchev. At a banquet the author catches the official acting like a Balkan Queen of Hearts, shouting the Bulgarian equivalent of "Off with his head!" when a writer who has offended him is mentioned. Little wonder that when Markov ultimately aroused his ire, Zhivkov once again called for an execution by less Carrollian means. The Truth That Killed is Markov's valediction...
...faith and questioning their opponent's. But the issue must be joined. Religion, Mr. Reagan told a prayer breakfast in Dallas, needs defenders against those who care only for the interests of the state. His clear implication was that he welcomed such a role for himself. The Queen of England, where state religion is established, is called the Defender of the Faith. But the President of the United States is the defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths...
...marriage of William Herbert and Anne Russell in 1600, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, the traditional masque followed: 'delicate it was to see eight ladies so prettily and richly attired.' Mary Fitton, a lady-in-waiting, led the masquers. [She] went up to the Queen and 'wooed her to dance.' The Queen asked Mary Fitton what allegorical character she represented; Mary Fitton replied that she was Affection. 'Affection!' said the old Queen. 'Affection is false...
...bringing in $400 million for Selchow & Righter, which is now manufacturing a million games a week to meet the demand. This fall stores will be inundated with Trivial Pursuit calendars, cartoon books and pencil caddies. ABC-TV is planning to air a Trivial Pursuit special. And in January the Queen Elizabeth II sets sail on an eight-day Trivial Pursuit cruise, with Abbott and the Haneys aboard...