Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What governor?" jeered Ian Smith at protests on Gibbs's behalf. Indeed, hardly had Smith seized independence for his white supremacist regime than he had taken it upon himself to fire Sir Humphrey, naming his own Deputy Premier as the Queen's new "official representative." Trouble was, Gibbs refused to be fired, and nothing Smith could do would budge him. "Her Majesty has asked me to continue in office," Sir Humphrey announced, "and I therefore remain your lawful Governor...
Immature Crops. All was far from quiet in London, where Sir Humphrey had overnight become the toast of the crown. The House of Commons passed an unprecedented motion of "admiration" for his stand, and Queen Elizabeth made him Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Even so, it was becoming increasingly plain to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the sanctions he had imposed on Rhodesia were a long way from bringing Smith to his knees...
Twelve Harvard students pulled a panty raid on burlesque queen Hope Diamond last night, but the panties and bras came on hour late, Miss Diamond never came at all, and no one seemed too happy about the whole affair...
...When Queen Elizabeth II paid her first official visit to the U.S. in 1957, New York reporters spent warm hours trudging alongside her ticker-tape parade up Broadway. At one point, they were startled by the sight of an unexpected limousine in the procession. In side, cool and elegantly dressed, sat Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, covering the event in her regal fashion. Wiping the perspiration from her forehead, an exasperated woman reporter murmured: "There goes the Queen covering the Queen...
...accurate detail, as well as a sharp eye for the offbeat feature story on, say, an obscure trial witness. Whenever Hearst editors scented a big story, she was sure to get the assignment; she was on hand for Bruno Hauptmann's trial, F.D.R.'s first presidential campaign, Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Princess Margaret's marriage, Khrushchev's U.S. visit. In turn, her fellow Hearst employees respected her as a master practitioner of Hearst journalism, a judgment that was amply evident in the amount of space-some seven pages-that the Journal-American devoted...