Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...castle belongs to England's reigning Queen; the loyal subject pounding the pavement outside commands other realms. Sebastian Coe, 27, holds world marks for the mile and for the 800-and 1,500-meter runs, the most regal array of records in the history of middle-distance running. He is also struggling uphill after a bout with toxoplasmosis, an infection that he contracted last year. Coe's comeback after an enforced five-month layoff will not be fully tested until he steps onto the track at Los Angeles, where he will compete in both the 800 and 1,500 meters...
Divorced from Marathoner Ron Tabb since 1982, Decker has wrapped herself in the huge protective arms of British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney, who helps shoo away intruders, roughly everyone. She has become a private athlete. If Carl Lewis would be king of the Games, Decker means to be queen. Both have resisted staying in the Village among the commoners, but the U.S. Olympic Committee has insisted, and the two are expected to check in at least...
...Queen Mary is berthed in the harbor at Long Beach, a tourist attraction. She has a restaurant astern called Sir Winston's. The menu is in French. Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation. You summon a waiter, whose name is Juan. "French taco," Juan explains, "with strawberries...
...Queen, who avoids visits during election campaigns, will now tour Canada from Sept. 24 to Oct. 7. She will then spend two weeks on horse farms in Virginia and Wyoming...
...merit determines Britain's next poet laureate-not necessarily a safe assumption-then Philip Larkin, 61, will get the job. In that event, the Queen's subjects had better brace themselves for a jolt. Larkin can speak for England, but it is the gray, postimperial England of rationed hopes and undercutting humor, the England of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, which was dedicated to Larkin and is regarded as his youthful portrait...